Mr. Liebeler.

You are presently employed as a reporter for a Fort Worth newspaper, is that correct?

Mr. Vinson.

That's right.

Mr. Liebeler.

Which newspaper?

Mr. Vinson.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram.

Mr. Liebeler.

How long have you been employed by them?

Mr. Vinson.

Since July 15, 1963.

Mr. Liebeler.

What kind of work have you been doing for them?

Mr. Vinson.

Reporter.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you have any particular specialty, or just a general reporter; what kind of work are you actually doing?

Mr. Vinson.

We have a bureau in Arlington, Tex., which specializes in covering suburban news in the community between Dallas and Fort Worth, and we have two reporters assigned to this bureau, and I am one of the two reporters in this bureau at this time.

Mr. Liebeler.

So you are actually presently located or based in Arlington; is that correct?

Mr. Vinson.

That's right. We have an office in Arlington.

Mr. Liebeler.

Have you been doing this same work ever since you went to work for the newspaper?

Mr. Vinson.

No.

Mr. Liebeler.

What other jobs have you had?

Mr. Vinson.

When I started, I was given the routine work that most beginner reporters assume. You start out writing obituaries and just general assignments on the city side or working through the city editor, and I did that for about 6 weeks.
During this time I was doing this 4 days a week, while on Saturday they were training me to take over the police reporters job. And I worked 4 days out of the main office and 1 day from the police station for about 6 weeks.
And then around the first of September I became a full-time police reporter for the Evening Star Telegram, and I worked as a police reporter until about October the 1---excuse me, until about, I would say, around October 20, the latter part of October. I don't know the dates exactly, but I stayed as a police reporter for a little less than 2 months. Then the management decided that they were going to establish this bureau in Arlington, and I was chosen along with another reporter to come out to work in Arlington.

Mr. Liebeler.

How old are you, Mr. Vinson?

Mr. Vinson.

Twenty-three.

Mr. Liebeler.

When were you born?

Mr. Vinson.

July 6, 1940.

Mr. Liebeler.

Where?

Mr. Vinson.

Childress, Tex.

Mr. Liebeler.

Where is that?

Mr. Vinson.

It is just at the beginning of the Panhandle. It is about 120 miles west of Wichita Falls and about 150 miles southeast of Amarillo, just at the base of the Panhandle.

Mr. Liebeler.

How long did you live there?

Mr. Vinson.

I lived there until the summer of 1947, with one exception. We moved to Fort Worth in 1945, 1946, for a short time, about 3 months, and my father was working in Fort Worth, but my mother and I, there was this big housing shortage after the war and we couldn't find a place to live, so we moved back to Childress until my father was able to find us a place to live. That was in the summer of 1946, as I recall now, because I started to school in the first grade in Childress that fall.

Mr. Liebeler.

Then you and your-mother-finally moved to Fort Worth?

Mr. Vinson.

Yes; in the summer of 1947, we moved to Fort Worth, and that fall I started to school in Fort Worth, and that would have been the second grade.

Mr. Liebeler.

You went to the first grade in Childress?

Mr. Vinson.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

And you went to the second grade in what school?

Mr. Vinson.

Lily B. Clayton Elementary School.