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  2. Clyde Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Clyde Thompson (1910–July 1, 1979 [1]) was an American prisoner turned chaplain.He is most noted for being cited and labeled as The Meanest Man in Texas. The film titled The Meanest Man in Texas has been filmed and is currently in the post production process and is based on the true story and book of the same title (ISBN 978-0-9714958-6-9), written by Don Umphrey.

  3. Category:Musicians from Lubbock, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas portal; Pages in category "Musicians from Lubbock, Texas" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.

  4. Buddy Holly Center - Wikipedia

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    Buddy Holly Center. / 33.578564; -101.842818. The Buddy Holly Center is a performance and visual arts center in Lubbock, Texas, dedicated to Buddy Holly as well as the music of Lubbock and West Texas more broadly. The building in which it is located opened as the city's Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway depot in 1928.

  5. Bob Wills - Wikipedia

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    Bob Wills. James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [ 1][ 2][ 3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).

  6. Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences - Wikipedia

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    The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences is a new performing arts venue in Lubbock, Texas.Groundbreaking took place on April 20, 2017, with more than 500 people in attendance, including Lubbock Mayor, Dan Pope, board chairman of the Lubbock Entertainment Performing Arts Association, Tim Collins, and executive director of Ballet Lubbock, Nicholas Dragga.

  7. Stars and Stripes Forever (film) - Wikipedia

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    Stars and Stripes Forever is a 1952 American Technicolor film biography of the late-19th-/early-20th-century composer and band leader John Philip Sousa. This 20th Century Fox feature was produced by Lamar Trotti, directed by Henry Koster, and stars Clifton Webb, Debra Paget, Robert Wagner, and Ruth Hussey. The film's title is taken from Sousa's ...

  8. List of marches by John Philip Sousa - Wikipedia

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    In 1987, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was made the national march of the United States, by an act of Congress. [11] The "U.S. Field Artillery" is the official march of the United States Army. After leaving the Marine Band, he formed a civilian band and went on many tours in the subsequent 39 years. [12]

  9. Lubbock Lights - Wikipedia

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    The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas in August and September 1951. The Lubbock Lights incident received national publicity in the United States as a UFO sighting, and was investigated by the U.S. Air Force. According to Ruppelt, Officially all of the sightings, except the UFO that was ...