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Large hardback in very good condition with very good dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. Signed by author. Seller Inventory # 619300
Bibliographic Details
Title: Oklahoma Vs Texas: When Football Becomes War
Publisher: Austin, Texas, U.S.A.: Honey Hill Pub
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
About this title
A lawyer by training (Baylor, 1955, where he served as the President of the Law School Student Body), Heard practiced for two years with the admiralty law firm of Royston, Rayzor and Cook in Houston, 1955-57 (he won all three lawsuits he tried in court). A 40-year journalist, Heard worked two years, 1957-58, for the Waco News-Tribune (Texas); five years for the Long Beach Independent (Calif.), 1959-1963 (he got one-on-one interviews with Eleanor Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, among others, in 1962; and 14 years with the Associated Press in Los Angeles, Houston and Austin, 1963-1977. He worked one year with the Texas AFL-CIO as public relations director and editor of the 300,000-circulation tabloid Labor News. He served as Texas Capitol correspondent for the San Antonio Express-News, including writing a Sunday column, 1983-85. He also wrote a weekly column for The Texas Lawyer for two years, 1986-88.
On Nov. 21, 1999, Heard unveiled a Texas Historical Marker at Ennis TX for 1st Lt. Jack Lummus, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for singlehandedly wiping out three Japanese pillboxes on Iwo Jima on March 8, 1945, before stepping on a land mine that inflicted fatal wounds. Heard applied for the marker and directed the project.
Heard taught an upper-level course, Media Law and Ethics, at the University of Texas in 1975. He has written dozens of magazine articles.
The winner of several journalistic awards, Heard received a special citation from the Austin Headliners Club for his coverage for the AP of the University of Texas Tower sniper in 1966 (Heard numbered among the wounded).
As a kid in the summers of the 1940s, Heard worked on his grandmothers and uncles ranches in the hills of northern Uvalde County in Southwest Texas. He served as a second- and first-lieutenant with the First Marine Division in Korea in 1952.
Heard is married to his second wife and has one surviving son from his first marriage, Tom Heard, an actor in Hollywood.
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