Im jamie colby. And today, im driving in the badlands of eastern montana. Its rugged, bigsky, cattleranching country. Im on my way to meet a lifelong resident whose father left him a chunk of this land. Nice to have you here. Thanks for having us. My names Clayton Phipps. And in 1997, my father passed away, and i inherited from him a small portion of the family ranch. And along with that came a few pretty exciting surprises. 41yearold Clayton Phipps is like a character out of red river or lonesome dove. [ horse neighs ] most of the time, im on my own. Im happy that way. This ranch had been in our family since my greatgrandfather homesteaded here. And its a part of me that i just didnt feel like i wanted to ever part with. Clayton grew up and learned to cowboy here on the ranch his father shared with three brothers. He describes the operation as cashpoor but reasonably successful. My dad worked us hard, but that was a good thing, too. After claytons father dies in 1997, the ranch is spl
South houston, texas, on my way to meet an heir who wrote me. He said he had an incredible and highly valuable inheritance linking him to a texas legend and, by the way, a Baseball Team that won its first world series in 2017. My name is Robert Harper. When my father died in 2012, i inherited a customized luxury railcar, and theres some really colorful Texas History behind it, and i still dont know what the heck to do with it. Hi, im jamie. Robert harper. Its a pleasure to meet you. Welcome to South Houston. Okay. Robert leads me into a warehouse to show me his strange inheritance. What is it exactly . Its a fullsize railcar 44 feet long, 12 feet wide. It weighs 50,000 pounds. It sat here for 41 years. It belonged to judge roy hofheinz. Judgewho,you ask . Roy hofheinz, a boy wonder who had his own law firm at age 19, became a county judge, pioneered fm radio, and was elected mayor of houston in 1952. From the mayors office, the judge, as he was known, promises to transform houston from
Really i wanted to take the story of beyond desegregation which occurred in 1963. The idea cover that in the first chapter. I wanted to take you to the rest of the 60s because while we desegregated in 1963 did not integrate. That took a long time even going beyond 1970. Its a ne in the spirit of the University Went in a new direction. Once segregation was out of the way, once all the energy that had gone to trying to maintain and actually illegal and certainly immoral way of doing things, after all that energy could be sent in another direction, the university of alabama begin to turn itself away from being a regional Football Party school and turn itself towards becoming a Major National academic institution. Thats what it has become but it was a long journey in the 1960s sent us in that direction. There were a lot of changes going on at the beginning of the 60s but really it stems from 1956. The first effort of desegregation which failed horribly. Accompanied by riots. Lucy was a stu
Excellent literature that a sort of came from this first generation of contemporary war memoirs and reporters and just started to have this sense of the activities that war actually consists of are often, often bare of strange, of stranger or sort of i cant find the word. They often dont relate in any sort of direct way to the things that we tend to talk about war as being about. So, that was the spirit in which i did this on and its something that i still find myself thinking about a lot but thanks for the question. I hear that question mark especially since i have a military background. And i mentioned before reading some articles and being interested in trying to understand that and its also around the time in the newspapers starting to release reports about the suicide epidemic among soldiers. A kid killed himself not far from where i was living so i felt strangely complicit and yet having no power to understand what was going on, you know for the people that were Walking Around me
Traumatic memory as sort of one that cant be fully assimilated by the mind and that happens over and over again and that follows you and haunts you, and thats coming from a past thats difficult and painful, then what does that mean to still inhabit the present when its sort of fully taken over by the past . And going off what ken said just about a refusal to understand, i think thats a really important word and a word i kept running into over and over again when i was reading about ptsd and learning more about its history. And its pretty much a history of our refusal to accept many things; capacity for violence, capacity for evil, our willingness to understand difficult circumstances, the fact that war can be, you know, purposeless at times. The symbolic value and the glory we give to it might not be, you know, may not fully follow through for homecoming always. And how to make sense of that discrepancy. And caleb was interesting because he sort of refused to accept traditional definit