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5 unusual facts about Kilgore


Claude Gray

He began a recording career in 1959, after working as a radio announcer in Kilgore, Texas, and performing as a disc jockey in Meridian, Mississippi.

Hank O'Neal

Hank O’Neal (born as Harold L. O’Neal, Jr. June 5, 1940 in Kilgore, Texas) is an American music producer, author and photographer.

Kilgore College Rangerettes

The Kilgore College Rangerettes, also known simply as the Rangerettes, are an American dance team from Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas.

Kilgore Film Festival

The Kilgore Film Festival of Kilgore, Texas began in 1998 under the sponsorship of KTPB, the former public radio station of Kilgore College.

Terry Stembridge

Stembridge later co-authored a book on the history of Kilgore, Texas.


Constantine B. Kilgore

Kilgore was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895).

Henry Swearingen

Swearingen was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Kilgore.

Kilgore College Rangerettes

The Kilgore College Rangerettes were founded by Gussie Nell Davis, a physical education instructor from Farmersville, Texas who had previously devised an all-girl's high school drum and bugle corps out of Greenville, Texas called the "Flaming Flashes".

KKTX

KKTX-FM, a radio station (96.1 FM) licensed to Kilgore, Texas, United States

Master Pandemonium

As part of the Marvel NOW! event, Master Pandemonium was recruited by Kade Kilgore to be a teacher at the Hellfire Club's Hellfire Academy, where Master Pandemonium teaches Hell Literature.

Oliver Winfield Killam

The third oil well drilled by Killam brought about an oil boom in Mirando City in eastern Webb County nearly a decade before the better known East Texas Oil Boom centered about Kilgore and Longview.

Radcliffe Killam

The third Killam well brought about an oil boom in Mirando City in eastern Webb County in 1921, nearly a decade before the better known East Texas Oil Boom centered about Kilgore.

Raymond Edward Johnson

A prolific performer, Johnson was also heard as Mr. District Attorney in 1939, Roger Kilgore, Public Defender, Calling All Cars, and starred in radio adaptations of the comic strips Don Winslow of the Navy and Mandrake the Magician.

Steve Tyrell

He recently produced That's Life, the debut album for Sony recording artist and winner of the 6th season of America's Got Talent, Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. The album's vocal tracks were recorded at Wire Road Studios in Houston, Texas with the remainder of the album being recorded at Capitol Studios and Schnee Studios in Los Angeles and Deep Diner and Kilgore Sound in New York.

Tom Kilgore

Earlier in his career, Kilgore worked for Arkansas Power & Light (a subsidiary of Entergy), Carolina Power & Light, and for the U.S. Department of Defense at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Jefferson County, Arkansas.


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