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Snap Judgment

Texas Ranger - Snap Classic

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Arts/performing Arts, Society & Culture/documentary, Performing Arts, Arts, Snap, Music, Storytelling, Personal Journals, Society & Culture/personal Journals

4.711.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Back in the 1970's Bob Favor signed up to be a Texas Ranger. He helped local police solve some of their toughest cases. But there was one case that kept getting away from him.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Shana Shealy. I've been a producer on Snap Judgment for nearly a decade. And years ago, I started following a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, documenting their epic battle for their own place on their

0:22.8

own terms.

0:24.3

I got totally sucked into this group's drama, and I couldn't stop.

0:29.1

And now, we're finally bringing that story to you.

0:33.1

A tiny plot.

0:34.7

A five-part series about scarcity, survival, and the one thing people in this group

0:40.0

wanted most, control over their own lives. A tiny plot, a story told by the people who lived it.

0:49.2

A tiny plot is out now. Listen on Snap Judgment.

0:56.5

Introducing the five-year price guarantee from Xfinity.

1:00.0

No matter how your life or your taste and music changes in five years,

1:03.7

your internet price will stay exactly the same.

1:06.8

Restrictions apply new residential customers only,

1:09.2

taxes and fees extra and subject to change.

1:11.6

SNAP.

1:12.6

Ready on SNAPJ judgment from WNY we're gonna go to 1970s West Texas, where the good meets the bad and the ugly. Snap Judgment. The I got tired of running up down the highway 150 mile hour all day long and

1:59.0

write tickets.

2:01.6

After nine years on Highway Patrol, Bob Faber needed something more exciting.

2:06.6

So he joined the Texas Rangers.

2:09.6

Texas Rangers are like the fixers.

2:11.6

They help local police solve their toughest cases, and Bob solved hundreds.

2:16.6

There was the preacher who fell in love

2:18.4

with a married woman and then shot her husband. There was the necrophiliac funeral worker,

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