Personal Letter from a student sending their support to save Cannon AFB

Statements and Testimony - Testimony before the BRAC Commission Clovis New Mexico Ref: Reno-Tahoe International Airport/Air Guard Station

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of three supersonic frogs just flown past the sound barrier by North American Aviation test pilot Joe Lynch is examined by Captain Robbie Risner, Korean eight-kill jet ace, Clovis Air Force Base, Kathleen Hughes, Universal Pictures actress who soon will appear in the forthcoming 3-D fantasy, "It Came From Outer Space" and Bill Collins, ringmaster for the Jumping Frog Jubilee to be held at Angels Camp in the Mother Lode Country, May 15-16-17."

From Operational Program: This final report includes a general geologic description of the area, including descriptions of the various geologic units and correlates the airborne data to the geologic units as provided by the geologic maps. Also included is a frequency distribution study of the data as a function of the geologic units encountered over the NTMS area including the tie line data.

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

Interview with African American North Texas State University alumnus James Gayle. The interview included Gayle's personal experiences of childhood, playing basketball at Fort Worth's all-black Terrell High School, attending North Texas and enrolling in the ROTC program, and his experience as a boarder in "Shack Town" neighborhood of Denton. Gayle talks about the comparison of race relations in Artesia, New Mexico, and Waco and Forth Worth, Texas, the "neutral" stance of NT administration toward black students and the "self-support" system among students, as well as his relationships with professors and white students, and his perception of what he gained from his NT experience.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lev. H. Prichard Jr., millionaire Oklahoma City and San Antononio Texas, oilman died Friday strapped to a cot in hospital plane that burst into flames as it landed on an emergancy strip in Hachita N. M."

These letters are from the Charles B. Moore Collection. They are written by J. Sabina Rucker to her brother, Charles B. Moore. In this letter, Sabina updates Charles on the Rucker family and details the country around her. She notes that while in the country she saw cowboys herding fifteen hundred cattle to New Mexico. The topic of this first letter moves to correspondences she had begun writing to Henry or Solomon. She discusses their travel and lodging plans and then closes the letter. Her brief, second letter was written on June 16, 1888. She discusses a house the family is looking at and notes that they saw a pack of dogs as they were coming into town. She details some news about a family friends and closes the letter because of the misting rain. The envelope is included with the letters.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about four men being hospitalized following a plane crash.

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

Interview with Richard (Dick) Bennett, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his enlistment in the Army Air Corps, basic training and flight school. He then went to a base in South Carolina to learn to fly B-25s. At Fort Myers, Florida he flew B-26 bombers and trained to fly them off of aircraft carriers so they could drop torpedos on the Japanese fleet during naval battles. He traveled across the Pacific to Brisbane only to be told that they didn't have B-26s for the crews; the colonel there knew nothing about the plan to launch B-26s from aircraft carriers, so they were sent to New Guinea to fly B-17s and supplement the crews for those bombers. From there they made bombing runs or "Washing Machine Charlie"-type runs to keep people awake at night on various Japanese targets in the islands, particularly the base at Rabaul. In fall of 1943, the Army grounded the B-17s due to the damage they had incurred and replaced them with B-24s. The men received manuals and were given only a few days to familiarize themselves with the new planes. They were then sent on bombing runs. He finished his tour of duty at …

Newspaper clipping with an article of General Paul Tibbets' experience in aviation, male opinion within the military about the creation of WASP, and a brief history of WASP.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about environmental protection agency which says that more than 6 million 500 thousand gallons of petroleum products was spilled and wasted during the past fiscal year in Texas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the environmental protection agency which reported that more than 6 and half million gallons of petroleum products which were spilled or wasted during the past fiscal year in Texas.

Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing a solution to the type of hay being secured to send to Plantersville in replace of hay from Sugar Land.

Letters from Cathy Estes to the Commission regarding Cannon AFB

Letters from Suzanne Thrasher to the Commission regarding Cannon AFB

Letters from Jane Henry to the Commission regarding Cannon AFB

Community Correspondence - Letter to Chairman Principi, and Commissioners Brig. General Turner, Skinner from Kathleen McTommoney discussing Cannon Air Force Base.

Community Correspondence - Letter to all Commissioners from Andrea Bigelow discussing Cannon Air Force Base.

Community Correspondence - Letter to all Commissioners from Duffy Sasser discussing Cannon Air Force Base.

Community Correspondence – Letter to the Commission from Al Tally of Clovis NM discussing Cannon AFB.

Letters from Curtis Johnston to commission regarding Cannon AFB

Letters from Mary Ann Cable to the Commission regarding Cannon AFB