Dallas Observer posts excerpt from intriguing new book: Dallas 1963

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http://www.dallasobserver.com/2013-10-10/news/how-the-morning-news-helped-dallas-become-the-city-of-hate/full/

In their new book Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis carefully chronicle the story of Dallas in the years leading up to President John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. In this excerpt, they take us back to October 1961, when The Dallas Morning News' combative publisher helped cement the city's reputation as a conservative hotbed.

When I lived in Dallas in the 80's, everyone knew, the Morning News was the right-wing paper and the Times Herald was the liberal paper. I had no idea those roles were reversed in the 1920's.

I want this book.

[gopiscrap]

1. I want that book also

[northoftheborder]

2. Fascinating...

I knew the Dallas Morning News was right wing, but I didn't know about this story. DMN was very influential in those days.....

[El Supremo]

3. Here are the ads that ran in the News that morning:

I lived there then. Dallas was the center of the John Birch Society. But not everyone were nuts like Dealey and the Hunts.