Ruthie,

I just sent you a longer e-mail.

According to Paul Angle's fine book about Williamson County and environs (Knopf 1979), titled "Bloody Williamson" your father had 2 assassination attempts on his life. It wasn't said whether or not he had been injured or not. I hope you folks made it away from the violence of that sad era -- violence that had begun much earlier by decades and had continued on into the 1950s.

Art Thieme