Our small city has produced quite a few famous folks.
Music-makers born here (or within 30 or so miles) include Jim Reeves, Johnny Horton, Tex Ritter, Claude King, Kix Brooks, Trace Adkins, Floyd Kramer, Hank Williams, Jr., D.J. Fontana (Elvis's drummer), James Burton (Elvis's guitarist), Huddie Leadbetter (Leadbelly--black blues guitarist in the 30s), and concert pianist Van Cliburn.
To the sports world we contributed a raft of quarterbacks (Terry Bradshaw, Joe Ferguson, David Woodley, Stan Humphries), RB Jacob Hester, golfers Hal Sutton and David Toms; basketballer Robert Parish, baseballer Todd Walker and motorcycle racer Freddie Spencer. Lots of others from the surrounding area, including Karl Malone, Willis Reed, Buck Buchannan, Willie Davis.
Other local boys were playwright Josh Logan and lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Cochran's famous client Orenthal J. Simpson also lived here for a time as a child.
Gun enthusiasts may know the names of gunsmith Jim Clark (he attended my church), his daughter and son-in-law Kay and Jerry Miculik (sp?).
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