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Flashback to WWI: Camp Bowie
Texas Christian University 3015 Merida Ave., Fort Worth, TX, United StatesCommemorate the 100th Anniversary of World War I with a tour of historic Camp Bowie, a training camp which covered much of the modern day neighborhood of Arlington Heights. This two-hour course (10/26, 6:30 - 9:30) and day-long tour (10/28, 9:00am - 3:00pm) will explore the camp's history and physical location from 1917-1919. Using maps... Read more »
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Fort Worth and the “Summer of Love,” 1967-1972
Fort Worth Library 500 W. Third St., Fort Worth, TX, United StatesTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of "Summer of Love," local historian Harry Max Hill will discuss the spread of the youth counterculture phenomenon from its epicenter in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco to Fort Worth, Texas.... Read more »
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The Murder of William Clark
Fort Worth Library 500 W. Third St., Fort Worth, TX, United StatesPolice first thought they had a suicide on their hands when they discovered wealthy oilman William Clark's body sprawled across a bedroom floor in his opulent Park Hill neighborhood mansion in the spring of 1953. Instead, Clark's death touched off a bizarre investigation involving a murder-for-hire plot, connections to the criminal underworld of the infamous Jacksboro Highway, and two subsequent killings.... Read more »