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unusual facts about Crockett


Battle of Cove Mountain

Following the battle, Union forces were forced to retreat to the Crockett's Cove Presbyterian Church.


Bill Apter

Apter also hosted a TV segment, the PWI Scouting Report, on Best of World Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett's NWA TV show broadcast weekly on Ted Turner's WTBS, as well as a stint with the nationally syndicated Pro Wrestling This Week TV news magazine, and segments on dozens of other televised wrestling shows.

Bob Bruggers

He was involved in the same 1975 plane crash that involved pilot Joseph Michael Farkas (he ended up in a coma and died the next year), wrestling legends Johnny Valentine (broke his back and bone fragments impacted into his spinal cord, which ended his career), Tim Woods (Mr. Wrestling), and Ric Flair (broke his back, but recovered and returned to wrestling), and Jim Crockett Promotions' announcer David Crockett.

Bob Caudle

He started working with Jim Crockett Promotions in the late 1950s for promoter Jim Crockett, Sr.

Bob Crockett

Crockett umpired a total of 32 Test matches, the highest number by an Australian umpire until passed by Tony Crafter in his last match in 1992.

Robert Maxwell Crockett (1863 in Hepburn, Victoria – 11 December 1935, at Footscray, Victoria), was an Australian Test match umpire.

Chester Schaeffer

Schaeffer subsequently wove the footage from the first three "Davy Crockett" broadcast programs into the feature film Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955).

Dave Tweedie

Living in the small, working-middle class town of Crockett, California, Dave Tweedie grew up with Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of the rock band Green Day, as well as Scott Holderby of pioneering heavy funk metal band Mordred.

Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo is a 1926 American silent Western starring Cullen Landis, Kathryn McGuire and Joe Rickson, and featuring Bob Fleming, Ralph McCullough, Fletcher Norton, Anne Berryman, Jay Morley, Thomas G. Lingham, Frank Rice, Betty Brown and Bob Steele.

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout is a 1950 Western film starring George Montgomery as nephew of Davy Crockett.

Dolores Gresham

Her Senate District 26 encompasses the counties of Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and Wayne in the western part of the state.

John Julius Angerstein

In 1771 Angerstein married Anna Crockett (widow of Charles Crockett and daughter of Henry Muilman (1700–1772) a South Sea Company director, banker, Danish consul in London and Russia Company consul, and Anne née Darnall) at St Peter-le-Poer, Old Broad Street.

John Wesley Crockett

After moving to Memphis, Tennessee, Crockett died there the same year on November 24, 1852 at the age of 45 years, 137 days.

Kenneth Tobey

After Bowie's death at the Battle of the Alamo, Tobey played a second character, Jocko, in the two final Crockett episodes.

KIVY

KIVY-FM, a radio station (92.7 FM) licensed to serve Crockett

KIVY-LD, a low-power television station (channel 16) licensed to serve Crockett

Lane Crockett

In 1977, after Attaway had already sold The Journal to businessman and professor Charles T. Beaird, Crockett joined the staff of the Shreveport Times, where he remained until his retirement in 2004.

Mel McInnes

(Presumably Wisden had bowlers Ian Meckiff and Gordon Rorke in mind with this comment.) Johnnie Moyes in 1959 thought “McInnes, in my opinion, ranks with Hele and Crockett as the finest Australia has produced … McInnes adopted the English idea of never rushing into a decision and perhaps that is why he makes so few mistakes.”

Miami Vice: The Game

Therefore, the likeness of the narcotics officers Crockett and Tubbs are based on that of Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, respectively.

As the player advances through the levels as either Crockett or Tubbs, they get deeper and deeper into the drug operation, and closer to bringing down Sacrenegra.

Michael Crockett

When not selected by the Warriors Crockett played for the Auckland Vulcans in the NSW Cup and for the Counties Manukau Jetz in the Bartercard Cup.

Mike Fink Keel Boats

The Mike Fink Keel Boats were based on the Walt Disney television shows, later made into feature length movies, Davy Crockett's Keel Boat Race and Davy Crockett and the River Pirates.

Not for Children

The production starred Elliott Nugent as Ambrose Atwater, Betty Field as Theodora Effington, J. Edward Bromberg as Timothy Forrest, Ann Thomas as Prudence Dearborn, Keene Crockett as Elijah Silverhammer, Alexander Clark as Clarence Orth, and Joan Copeland as Evangeline Orth.

Now and Zen

It is the musical accompaniment to Crockett and Tubbs return to Miami via motor yacht after rescuing General Bourbon (a thinly veiled Manuel Noriega-type character) from the fictional Central American nation of Costa Morada.

Out Where the Buses Don't Run

When James "Sonny" Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) arrest a small-scale drug dealer, they receive a visit at the police station from a man Crockett recognises as retired Vice officer Hank Weldon (Bruce McGill).

Overmountain Men

Other influential Overmountain Men included John Crockett (father of Davy Crockett), William Lenoir, Joseph Dickson, Daniel Smith, William Russell, and John Rhea, all of whom were at Kings Mountain, and Anthony Bledsoe, who commanded the homeguard for the Holston settlement while the main force was away.

Phillip Sandifer

He has recorded with such artists as Jennifer Warnes, Wendy Foy (Sierra), Billy Crockett, Bob Bennett and Michele Wagner and written music for Glen Campbell, Fernando Ortega, Bob Bennett, Kim Hill, Cheri Keaggy, Rob Frazier, Dawn Smith Jordan (Miss South Carolina), Gary Powell and others.

Polly Berry

In her 1839 case, Polly deposed that she was held as a child in slavery in Wayne County, Kentucky by Joseph Crockett.

Rick Husband

He attended Belmar Elementary, Crockett Junior High School, and he graduated from Amarillo High School in 1975.

Rutherford, Tennessee

Past grand marshals of the Davy Crockett Days Parade include Fess Parker who portrayed Davy Crockett in the 1954 Walt Disney television series Ballad of Davy Crockett.

S. R. Crockett

During 1900, Crockett wrote a booklet published by the London camera manufacturer, Newman & Guardia, comparing cameras favourably to pen and pencil and explaining how he encountered the N and G advertisement.

The Crockett Times

The Crockett Times is a weekly community newspaper serving Crockett County, Tennessee.

Tommy Young

By the 1980s, Tommy was the Senior Referee for Jim Crockett Promotions and refereed most of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship matches.

USS Crockett

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Crockett, presumably after counties in Tennessee and Texas.

World Wrestling Network

As part of a no-compete clause agreement he signed with Turner, Crockett was unable to promote professional wrestling events for three years.


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