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2 unusual facts about Jonesboro


Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

After they defeat the enemy, they are ordered to retreat to Jonesboro.

Comet Donati

Abraham Lincoln, then a candidate for a seat in the U.S. Senate, sat up on the porch of his hotel in Jonesboro, Illinois to see "Donti's Comet" on September 14, 1858, the night before the third of his historic debates with Stephen Douglas.


Battle of Jonesborough

The Union army began pulling out of its positions on August 25 to hit the railroad between the towns of Rough and Ready and Jonesborough.

Bryan Harsin

Because Malzahn and his predecessor Hugh Freeze left after just one season in Jonesboro, Harsin's contract at Arkansas State included a $1.75 million buyout clause.

David T. Caldwell

The Second Judicial District also includes Bienville and Claiborne parishes; each of the three parishes in the district has a separate judge based in Jonesboro, Arcadia and Homer, respectively.

Deacons for Defense and Justice

The Jonesboro chapter later organized a Deacons chapter in Bogalusa, Louisiana, led by Charles Sims, A. Z. Young and Robert Hicks.

E. L. Henry

Henry won his legislative seat on February 6, 1968, with a solid victory over his Republican opponent and personal friend, businessman Bob Reese of Jonesboro, later of Natchitoches Parish, where he ran unsuccessfully in 1972 for the state senate against the Democrat Paul L. Foshee.

Earl Bell

Bell established Bell Athletics outside of Jonesboro, Arkansas where he has coached Jeff Hartwig, Derek Miles, Kellie Suttle and Jillian Schwartz, among other top pole vaulters.

Genius of Universal Emancipation

Lundy moved the paper to Jonesboro, Tennessee in 1823, and then established himself in Baltimore, Maryland in 1824, where most of the paper's run would be published.

Hosea Holcombe

In 1818 he moved to Jefferson County, Alabama where he joined Cannon Baptist Church in old Jonesboro.

Illinois Route 146

The city of Jonesboro was the site of an open-air debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858.

James P. Pope

Born in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Pope graduated from Louisiana Industrial Institute (now Louisiana Tech University) in 1906 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909.

KFLO

KFLO-LP, a low-power radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States

Len Lacy

Edgerton L. "Bubba" Henry, a Democrat from Jonesboro, the seat of Jackson Parish, defeated Lacy in the 1967 primary, and in 1972, Henry began an eight-year stint as the Speaker of the Louisiana House.

Louis Lambert

The disappointed Fitzmorris and three other major Democratic gubernatorial candidates all endorsed Treen: Secretary of State Paul J. Hardy, originally from St. Martinville, state Senator Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr., of Lafayette, and outgoing House Speaker Edgerton L. "Bubba" Henry of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana.

Robert Kostelka

Newly-converted Republican State Representative James R. Fannin of Jonesboro, who is term-limited in the House, is considered a leading prospect to seek Kostelka's seat.

Sonny Burgess

The program, named after his first record, airs Sunday nights from 5-7pm Central Time on 91.9FM KASU in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Woody Freeman

Freeman’s partners are Phil H. Hout and Jesse Stafford, both then of Jonesboro, and Peter Seale of Houston, Texas.


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