Beckham, Wayne, 1929-2001

Merle Haggard (center left) with wife Bonnie Owens backstage at Panther Hall surrounded by fans

Buck Edwards wearing fringed vest and posing with guitar

Leroy Van Dyke (center) performing on stage with band at Panther Hall. Cowtown Jamboree sign in background.

Billy Gray (left), Beverly Church (center), and Merle Haggard (right) posing in a parking lot.

Merle Haggard (3rd from right, with headphones) with a group of men and a stack of Bob Wills LP records. Haggard was in Fort Worth collecting material to cut a Bob Wills tribute album. Left to right: Charley Taylor, Keith Kolby (whose collection Haggard taped), Billy Gray, Haggard, Joe Hicks, unidentified man

Eddie Burns (left), Hank Snow (middle), and an unidentified man backstage at Panther Hall. Snow is possibly wearing a suit by Nudie Cohn with embroidered bunches of grapes

Bozo Darnell (left), Gary Bean (center), and Jack Gunter (right) posing in front of a stage curtain

Billy Gray (center) performing with band on stage at Panther Hall. Cowtown Jamboree sign in background

Bob Luman (second from left), Tony Douglas (center), and Jim Newton (second from right), posing with two unidentified men backstage at Panther Hall. Newton was a disc jockey who later hosted "The Jim Newton Show" on channel 11 in Dallas.

Tony Douglas (left) posing with Bo Garbell backstage at Panther Hall