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Cover story on Darrell McCall.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Keith Adams, Brad Arnt, Bob Baker, Lynn Barclay, Bill Black, Johnny Bush, Los Caminantes, Ray Campi, Johnny Cash, Denny Ezba, Kinky Friedman, Barbarita Garcia, Jay Garcia, Pete Gonzalez, Alan Grimm, Carlos Guzman, Darrell Harkins, George Jones, Sylvia Leal, Sammy Lee, Bubba Littrell, Augie Meyers, Scotty Moore, Los Muchachos, Willie Nelson, Juan Olivares, Olga Olivia, La Patria, Leon Payne, San Pedro, Elvis Presley, Ray Price, Horace Stone Rainey, Juan Ramos, Paul Ray, Jim Reeves, Doug Sahm, Ruben Sanchez, Al Stricklin, John Stuckey, Greezy Wheels, Curly Williams, Hank Williams, Faron Young, Geno Zavala.

William Liddle talks about local politics in Hays County in the 1960s and 1970s, especially the involvement and sentiments of certain voting groups such as Democrats, the Mexican-American community, and the Black community. He relates controversial school board elections. He discusses issues of academic freedom that certain professors encountered, including Bill Emery, as well as the McCrocklin Case.

From 1999-2001, NASA partnered with History students at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State) to conduct interviews with former employees who lived in the Central Texas area. Interviewees include managers, engineers, technicians, doctors, astronauts, and other employees of NASA and aerospace contractors who served in key roles during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs.