Text of remarks given by Barbara Jordan at the roast of Pete Snelson. She gently makes fun of Snelson while praising his work ethic and personal qualities.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story by reporter Linda Frederick about a parade honoring baby Jessica McClure and the rescue workers who rescued her from a well in Midland, Texas. Frederick discusses how this event has positively impacted the town which was affected by an economic recession. The story aired at 5:00 P.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5 P.M.

Dallas “Dally” Willis was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas but grew up in Cleburne, Texas, raised by a single mother of seven children after his father abandoned the family. Willis attended high school in Cleburne and joined the Marine Corps in 1941. In the Marine Corps, Willis worked as an aerial photographer mapping the Pacific territories controlled by Japan. Upon returning to Cleburne, Willis worked for Southwestern Bail and joined the Communication Workers of America union. He moved to Midland, Texas in 1949. From 1961 to 2005 he served within the CWA’s Political and Legislative Committee, lobbying in the Texas Legislature. Dally also began the Labor Day Celebration of the Permian Basin in 1957. He has been a delegate for the DNC convention and was the decades long president of the Permian Basin Central Labor Union.

Lydia Evaro Madrigal was born in Odessa, Texas in 1957 and grew up in the majority minority area of south Odessa. She attended Zavala Elementary, Travis Elementary, Ector County Junior High and High School, and transferred to Permian Basin high school for the higher level of academic classes. Madrigal graduated from high school in 1975. She then attended Odessa College, and began working in a local television station due to a suit by attorney Richard Abalos due to the lack of people of color in that television station. She initially reported on the Larry Lozano case and saw the bias of the local media against Lozano and his family. Madrigal had been part political campaigns since she was thirteen and was offered a job at the Texas House of Representatives while in college. Eventually, she graduated from the University of Texas-Permian Basin 1989 after having attended Southwestern Texas State University. Madrigal has been the Latino outreach coordinator for the DNC in Washington D.C., has worked to make Odessa College a Hispanic Serving Institution, and is now a business owner in Odessa and Midland, Texas.

Fifth and sixth floor plan for an office building commissioned by R. R. Rhodes and Dr. J. H. Chapple in Midland, Texas. It features measurements, circled numbers, labels, and wall edge lines. Other sections include beam details.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about men charged with the use of lost and/or stolen credit cards in Midland, Texas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the arrests of four men in Midland in connection with a theft scheme.

Letter from Lester A. Walsh discussing House Bills 800 and 808. He urges the recipients of the letter to contact their representatives and senators to oppose both bills.

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing issues flying out of Midland, navigating poor weather over Arizona, being grounded by said weather, and staying in a hotel. Written on Santa Rita Hotel (Tucson) stationary.

Letter from Mrs. Margaret J. Hoyal thanking Kempner family for gifting a book named 'Henry Cohen: Messenger of the Lord'.

Photograph of the Cross Tie Cowboys, seated together in a clearing in the grasslands with a chuckwagon. Two men are seated next to or behind the chuckwagon, which carries supplies. Several horses stand in the back, behind several bushes. The cross tie brand was registered on April 29, 1902, originally owned by Newnie Ellie.