EP. 117: A Murder in the Capitol

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

Texan, Places & Travel, Education, Texas, Cowboy, History, Society & Culture, Culture, Jacinto, Texans, San

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

There has been one, and only one, assassination of a Texas state official and it happened in 1903. It occurred in the State Capitol building, the same one you can visit today. Hear about a disgruntled employee, a letter, and a gun in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast, I'm your host Ken Wise Wise I'm so glad you tuned in today for a little Texas history
0:16.3	I apologize to a long-time listeners we took a little break
0:21.8	Been a busy time down here at World Headquarters for Wies
0:25.2	about Texas, so I apologize for the gap. We're back in the groove. We've got a lot of
0:29.1	great things coming up. We're entering my favorite time a year. This podcast is being recorded and
0:35.4	released in late October.
0:37.1	2022 we got some cold fronts coming through. We got one down in South Texas
0:41.0	just last night. So long time listeners of this podcast know I went to
0:46.2	Texas A&M so my football season is not going all that well but I hope yours is
0:50.5	and it's hunting season down in Texas so all Texans really enjoy that in upcoming
0:56.2	holiday plans I hope send me your holiday plans to host at wise about Texas.com I think
1:02.2	I want to grab my daughter and go to some
1:04.4	small town Christmas celebrations this year. So send me yours wherever it is and
1:09.0	maybe I'll make an appearance up there.
1:12.6	Before we begin, I want to mention a couple of podcast friends.
1:15.9	I had the opportunity to be a guest on Galveston Unscripted
1:19.9	with J.R. Shaw, which I really enjoyed. It was kind of an impromptu thing. I was going to be down in Galveston and he bulldoged me into coming and joining him for an episode. J.R. is doing some great work preserving the history of Galveston, one of my favorite places in Texas.
1:34.0	Spend a lot of time down there, so check out Galveston unscripted.
1:38.0	Also something funny that happened, I've mentioned in before on this podcast, Evan Stern does a great podcast called
1:44.1	Vanishing Postcards and he recently did an episode on one of my favorite
1:49.9	road trip stops in Texas and that's the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo.
1:54.6	Absolutely love that place.
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