Rual Askew Collection 1920-1974

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Rual Askew Collection 1920-1974

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Askew, Rual

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Rual Askew was born in Marietta, Oklahoma, October 1, 1920. He spent most of his boyhood years in San Antonio, Texas until attending the University of Texas in Austin. His interest in the arts developed early with poems, philosophy, and piano recitals throughout school. After receiving a Masters degree in creative writing in 1942, Askew served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Soon after the war, he joined the staff of the Dallas Morning News in 1947. Askew beca...

Dallas Morning News

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The Dallas Morning News ( DMN ) is a daily newspaper launched by George Bannerman Dealey in Dallas, Texas in 1885. G. B. Dealey’s son and grandson have succeeded him in presidency of the paper’s publisher, the A. H. Belo Corporation. The paper was largely apolitical at the start of the 20th century, but in the early 1920s, it courageously denounced the Ku Klux Klan. Initially a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the DMN split with the president on domestic policy by his ...

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