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Eleanor Cowan

Eleanor Cowan.
Eleanor Cowan, was a school teacher in Dallas. She wrote a letter to TIME magazine condemning Dallas for the JFK Assassination. Her freedom of expression got her suspended and this even got Greg Olds and the DCLU (The Dallas affiliate of the ACLU) involved.
Another example of what happens when one is not falling into line and conforms. In this case the publicity must have gotten the people, that suspended her, thinking and reverse that Nazi style tactic……
Read the articles below.
- DCLU Press Statement Dec 7 1963
- Dallas Morning News Dec. 8 1963
- Dallas Times Herald Dec 9 1963
- The Mexia Daily News Dec 9 1963
- Dallas Times Herald Dec 10 1963
- Dallas Times Herald Dec 10 1963
- Dallas Times Herald Dec 15 1963
- Dallas Time Herald Dec 16 1963
Added Mexia Daily News article from Dec 9th 1963 on July 10th 2017.
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Recently we managed to have some scans made of someones archive (his name shall be kept a secret for now). In his collection (that was plundered by many before us) we found a contact sheet belonging to Jim Murray of the Dallas Times Herald.
We can see Mary Moorman, Larry Florer, Charles Brehm, the cordoning off the TSBD and a peek inside a cafe. A lot of these photographs were shown first in That Day In Dallas by Richard Trask.
- Mary Moorman
- Larry Florer in the far corner
- Charles Brehm on the right.
- John Chism Family and Larry Florer inside the Sheriff’s office
- Charles Brehm on the right.
- Charles Brehm on the right.
- DPD cordoning of the area between the TSBD and Dal Tex building.
- DPD cordoning of the area between the TSBD and Dal Tex building.
- DPD cordoning of the front of the TSBD
- In front of the Dal Tex building. Maddie Reese and
- Charles Kimerlin
- Walter Cronkite on TV inside a Dallas Bar
- Walter Cronkite on TV inside a Dallas Bar