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Courtesy of Universal StudiosFilming a scene from NO NAME ON THE BULLET in which Audie is using the gunbelt pictured below.

FOUNDATION ACQUIRESAUDIE MURPHY’S CUSTOM GUNBELT

The Foundation wishes to thank Andrew Johnson and MarionLong for their combined efforts in donating the custom-made

gunbelt which Dad used in NO NAME ON THE BULLET.

The belt was designed and crafted by Dad’s close friend ArvoOjala, Hollywood’s legendary “quick-draw” expert.

Terry Murphy

May 1, 1997

Andrew Johnson

This belt and holster with natural lining has loops for a .45caliber Colt. Mounted on the belt above holster is a sterlingsilver hand engraved insignia plate. On the inside buckleend of the belt is the name “Audie Murphy”, stamped in bythe propmaster and the letters UI (Universal International).Under the billet are the letters, “38CH” (belt size), SerialNo. 1592, and 45 (caliber size loops).

I made this holster and belt for my good friend, AudieMurphy, in the late 1950’s for his use in the motion picture,NO NAME ON THE BULLET, filmed at Universal Studio.The gun rig shows wear because Audie did many of his ownstunts.

Your friend,

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Arvo Ojala

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INTERVIEW WITH JACK ELAM

Courtesy of Sue Gossett & Universal Studios

Audie and Jack Elam doing their own stuntwork with Jack doubling for William Pullenin this scene from RIDE CLEAR OF DIABLO — 1954

In August 1996, Audie’s sistersNadene Murphy and Bea Tindol, ac-companied by Feller Goff, attended theWestern Film Festival in Memphis, Ten-nessee. There they had dinner with SueGossett, author of The Films and Ca-reer of Audie Murphy and Jack andJennie Elam.

Feller: I’m recording this for the Au-die Murphy Research Foundation.

Jack: Well, you better be able to edit itbecause my language isn’t always ex-actly what you’d want to hear.

Feller: They want to know some thingsthat you know about Audie: the good,the bad and the ugly. Don’t pull anypunches.

Jack: I know no bad about Audie. See,you can’t talk about Audie; you had toknow him. Audie is nothing you candescribe. He was a thing all of his own.

Anyway, I’d run down and make mybets and there’d be Audie. So we got totrading handicaps. He handicappedhorses and he liked to gamble. And heknew that I bought my first Cadillac outof the gas station office one day. I madethe biggest bet I’d ever made in my life.I bet $50 on a horse and parlayed it onthe seventh race and parlayed it to theeighth race. I walked away with $1600.

very well established. I saw him manytimes at the [General Service] studiowhere he was taking dancing lessons andfencing lessons and all kinds of shit andhe had never done a picture and neitherhad I. I was an auditor. I was HopalongCassidy’s controller. I was making bigmoney then for an auditor, about $300per week. I think Audie was makingabout $150.

Well, right off the top, the basis ofmy relationship with Audie Murphy wasgambling. The very first place I met himwas in a bookie’s office. This guyworked out of a gas station in Holly-wood. So we had the same bookie. Thiswas before Audie ever did anything inHollywood, when Jimmy Cagney hadhim under contract. He was out playingthe horses and so was I. And that’s whenwe began our relationship. So when weworked in pictures, our relationship was

And I bought a new Cadillac.I think, if I can tell you a single inci-

dent that nailed down our relationship,it would be the time we were shootingthat Don Siegel picture [THE GUNRUNNERS]. We had a break. We wereworking down at Laguna Beach some-where. And Audie said, “Come on Jack.Let’s go over to my boat. I want to showyou my boat.” He had a 60 foot motorsailer. So we went over to it and it wasa beauty. It was docked somewherearound Newport. And we’re sitting onthe deck and we’re having a drink. Audiewasn’t drinking, but he fixed me a drink.

him and me was that if I drew I couldn’thit anything. I just got the gun out. Thatwas my glory. But he could get the gunout and get it aimed before he pulled thetrigger. But we never did it with realbullets. We don’t play that game. Wedid do it with blanks sometimes, just tosee, you know. And I’d get it out andhe’d say, “Jack what are you doing?You’re shooting at the goddamnground.” But it was a game we played,not too often. I gave up in a hurry. Iknew when I was beat.

He had a shorter fuse than anybodyI’ve known. And he didn’t like bullies.

wagon with three other guys. So he said,“Come on with me, Jack.” Anyway, wecame down off the hill from Idyllwildand we hit Hemet, a little town at thefoot of the hills. Because it was a west-ern, I had a week’s growth of beard andthe long hair, which today would beshort. Anyway, we stopped at a bar fora drink. Audie didn’t drink. But I said“Gimme a straight shot of Cutty Sark.”And Audie ordered a straight shot ofCutty Sark and a Coke chaser. We weresitting at the bar and that way he couldjust slip me his drink. It would look likehe was drinking so he didn’t have to ex-

And Audie said, “Look atthat Luders that’s coming in.”That’s a little racing boat, asailboat. I said, “Where?”He said, “Right out there be-yond the breakwater.” And Isaid, “What the hell are youtalking about. There’s noboat out there.” He said,“Yes there is. You just watch.You’ll see it come in.” Prettysoon it got closer and closerand pretty soon I could seethe boat. I said, “By God thatis a Luders, Audie.” He said,“I told you it was, forchrissake. I saw it half anhour ago.” And I said, “Well,that’s why you’re a hero. Shit,that’s it. Because you can see better thananybody else.” And he laughed for halfan hour. He really did. He thought thatwas the funniest thing he’d ever heard.I could never do anything wrong afterthat. I just said, “The only thing youcould do is see better than anybody.” Hedid. He had eyesight like a hawk. I meanreally.

And he was a very fast draw. I’ddone the thing where I was supposed tobe the fastest draw in the world. In themovies that is, you know, in the series[THE DAKOTAS]. And we drew andwe were always drawing all the time.And I was — really in the line of actors— I don’t think there was an actor intown who could outdraw me, except Au-die Murphy. The big difference between

I saw him jerk a guy off a horse one time,you know. When the guy got smart witha lady — he didn’t like that at all. Maybethe lady was Susan Cabot. He likedSusan Cabot. I knew Susan. I did pic-tures with her before I worked with Au-die. She was pretty cute and she wastiny and so she worked great with him.She was only about five feet tall, andthey had a great look together. Audieliked girls. I mean Audie really likedthe girls.

He wasn’t afraid of anybody. Onetime we were up in Idyllwild on someshow. It’d have to be RIDE CLEAROF DIABLO, I guess. Audie was thestar of the picture so he had his own car,and he said, “Jack, ride in with me to-night.” `Cause I had to ride in a station

plain to the bartender, “Ionly want a Coke.” Any-way, some guy camedown from a table at theend and walked behindme. And I had this hair,you know. And the guygot ahold of the back ofmy hair and squeezed itand said, “You need ahaircut, buddy.” And hetouched the back of myhead. And Audie spunaround and hit him andnever said a friggin’ word.Just hit him. And he wentflat. And the guy waswith two other guys at atable down at the other

end of the room. And the guys got upand they looked at Audie — and youknow Audie was short — and these guyswere big guys. He just looked at `em.Not a word. They picked their friend up— he was kind of coming together —and they left the bar. We figured wemight be meeting them after we finishedmy drinks, on the way to the car. Butthere was no sign of `em. They weregone. I mean, they knew they don’t messwith Audie at that point. They could tell.He had that attitude about him of “Don’ttread on me.”

And we’d play liar’s poker all thetime. Everybody in Hollywood plays itwith dollar bills. We’d play it betweentimes on the sets and while we werewaiting around. Everybody always sayswell, let’s go for five-dollar bills or let’s

Courtesy of Vivian Brandon

Audie’s boat the Petrel was usually moored in Santa Monica.

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go for ten-dollar bills. I wouldn’t do it.I don’t like to play with them becausethey’ll cheat you. They’ll bring inplanted bills. But Audie and I, everytime we met, we’d play for hundred-dol-lar bills. Only with Audie would I playwith hundreds. Because Audie was agambler who wouldn’t cheat. I knew.And he knew I wouldn’t, either. We hadthe same feeling about each other. Sowe always played at least one game withhundred-dollar bills. I remember onetime in the commissary at Universal, wewent to the cashier and got, I don’t know,I guess he got $500 and I had $200 onme. But we sat in the commissary andeverybody in the commissary camearound. They never heard of anybodyplaying with hundred-dollar bills, youknow. But it didn’t matter and he knewit and I knew it. There was no way hewas going to beat me, and there was noway I was going to beat him. We couldplay all day and end up even, so whatthe hell’s the difference. He was verygood at it and so am I. My reputation

was the champion of Hollywood, but Ididn’t beat him.

But it was that thing with the boatthat cemented our relationship for life.I think I used the words, “You’re no f—hero, you just see better than anybody.”

Courtesy of Universal Studios

Audie far left foreground, Dan Duryea center foreground, Jack Elam right foreground — NIGHT PASSAGE — 1957

Well, you see, that didn’t offend him atall, because the truth is that he really wasa hero. So he didn’t have to defend any-thing . He saw the joke. Some guyswho really weren’t heroes, they wouldhave to defend that. But not Audie.

You had to know Audie. The guy Iknew early on at the gas station is thesame guy that I knew at the very end ofour relationship after we’d done picturestogether. There was no change in him.Not even the slightest, from before he’dever done pictures, before he became astar. Not even the tiniest change in hispersonality. Because he was what hewas. He was Audie Murphy. It had noth-ing to do with whether he was a moviestar or a horse player. There was onlyone Audie Murphy and there will neverbe another. I’m certain about that.

Jack Elam1996

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Audie, leaving Tipton beneath a corktree, was soon leading the first patrol intoRamatuelle. The village was clear ofGermans. Asking for three men,Murphy volunteered to take out a scout-ing patrol and reconnoiter the country-side. Some two miles southeast ofRamatuelle a sudden glint of sunlight onglass caused the four men to drop to theground. The flash had come from thebinoculars of a German officer who wasstudying the terrain in a seaward direc-tion.

He was standing up to his waist inthick brush on which the leaves werewilting. That meant camouflage. Butcamouflage for what? Murphy easedforward for a better look. He saw thesnout of a huge cannon. Then he knew:The patrol had stumbled upon the posi-tion of the real gun for which the dummy

on the bluff might have served as a di-verting decoy.

Audie thought the matter over. TheGermans were unaware of the patrol, sohe could slip back and report the posi-tion of the enemy gun. Or he could takea chance on attack. He decided to at-tack. Twenty years later he said: “To-day that decision seems damned foolishto me. The Germans could have killedmy entire patrol with a single muzzleblast from that cannon. I also knew thatthere had to be from seven to ten men tooperate and guard that gun. Neverthe-less, I gave the order to attack.”

Deploying his three men around theemplacement, he instructed them toshoot fast. Damn the accuracy. Hewanted to create a commotion that wouldgive the Germans the notion that theywere being attacked by a superior force.

As a signal for the start of the action,Audie was to shoot the officer. But theman had inconveniently disappeared inthe brush. However, Murphy spotted asentry who would have to serve. Takinga long, careful aim at the German head,he fired with a carbine.

“I did not get that bastard,” he gri-maced. “But I will never admit that Imissed him. I told myself that the bullethad ricocheted off his helmet. Admit-ting that I had missed a standing targetat such close range might have playedhell with my morale, which was sorelyneeded at the moment.”

After a brief firefight — in whichnobody was wounded — the Germanswaved a white flag. The American pa-trol moved in to take the prisoners. Uponseeing that he would have to surrenderto a mere staff sergeant with three men,

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Audie Murphy Research FoundationAudie Murphy at the American Cemetery of war dead at Suresnes (Seine), near Paris, France — July, 1948

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the enemy officer stiffened with insult.When Murphy demanded his sidearm,he contemptuously threw his pistol onthe ground.

“The man was a snob,” said Murphy.“And I could never stand a snob, espe-cially if he was a prisoner of war withmy gun covering him. This officer spokegood English. So I told him to pick upthe pistol and hand it to me like agoddamned gentleman. Otherwise Iwould kill him in ten seconds. Just be-cause you’re losing the war is no reasonfor battlefield discourtesy.”

“How far were you bluffing?” Iasked.

“Plenty,” he said. “I could alreadysee seven men, and had no idea of howmany more were armed and in conceal-ment. Then there was the question ofmorale. A few hours before, those Ger-mans on the bluff had fought like wild-cats. I did not know whether the events

of the day had lowered the general morale. Anyhow, it wasno time to have my bluff called.”

“Fortunately, the German officer didn’t want to die,” Iguessed.

“Fortunately,” said Audie. “I made him walk to me,figuring that the ground was mined and that he would takethe security route. Then I sent in my men to take the otherprisoners and fumigate the spot with a few hand grenades.”

In his citation for the Distinguished Service Cross, nomention is made of this capture of the big gun; nor is there aword about Tipton. “Lattie did as much as I,” says Murphy.“And all he got was a wooden cross at his head.”

Five years later Audie dedicated his book To Hell andBack to Tipton and Joe Sieja. “If there be any glory in war,let it rest on men like these,” he wrote.

In July, 1948, Murphy was invited to France to receivethe Legion of Honor Chevalier. He took me along as a “pub-licity specialist.” I was a specialist only in getting drunk.But at that time I was helping Audie with his book and hewanted me to look over some of the old battlefields.

We were met on “Yellow Beach” by a welcoming com-mittee headed by the mayor of Ramatuelle and several formermembers of the French Underground who had worked thatarea. At that time the beach was a desolate stretch of sandand brush with, here and there, sections of rusted barbedwire, scatterings of empty shell casings, and half-buried sec-tions of metal landing mats. All of the heavier wreckagehad been removed. There was no formal marking to com-memorate the invasion of almost three years before. Audiesaid that the natural conditions virtually duplicated those of

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Audie with members of the French welcoming committee — July 1948.

LaGuardia Field, New York — July 4, 1948

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-International News PhotoMURPHY OFF TO FRANCE - Former Infantry Lieu-tenant Audie Murphy, most decorated American footsoldier of World War II, boarded an Air France planeat LaGuardia Field, July 4 to visit France as the guestof the French government. Bidding him goodby areSusan Oliver, 8, and Robert Guenther, 10 of StratfordAve., School, Garden City, L. I., N. Y., who collectedcoins from their fellow students for U. N. appeal foroverseans children, and Mary Jane Oliver, 2, who is heldby Murphy. Hostess is Francine Guien, Murphy, fromFarmersville, Tex., plans to visit Colmar in Alsace,where he won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

D-Day morning. At eleven in the morn-ing, the sun was beating down and vis-ibility was excellent except for a slighthaze on the hills.

Audie tried, but failed, to locate thesnout of the dummy cannon from thebeach. However, he did point out therocky bluff where the gun had been. Ivolunteered to carry an old-fashionedstrobe light mechanism for a photogra-pher. It weighed about twenty-fivepounds. In addition to the heat, I wassuffering from a severe hangover.Murphy, noting my struggle, maintainedthe soul of dignity. But he said: “Thiswill teach you never to volunteer foranything on a goddamned beach.”

We were proceeding to Ramatuelleby auto when his eyes began to dartaround the forest. I could see no scarsof war there, but Audie asked the driverto stop. He got out of the car and askedme to follow him. We cut through thesection of pine trees and tall dry grass.There was no trail. Murphy soon starteda dog-trot and never paused until wepassed through the vineyard. He stoppedat an old foxhole that served as a grave.

A cross, on which hung a rusty Germanhelmet, was at the head. This was theexact spot where Lattie Tipton had beenkilled. Finding it so fast and easily hadbeen due to Murphy’s photographicmemory. To avoid traffic he has oftentaken me on unfamiliar backroads inCalifornia. He seldom looks at guidesigns. “I simply have the ‘feel’ of direc-tions,” he explained.

On the battlefield, he rapidly beganpointing out the strategy that he had usedon that brutal day almost three years be-fore. He was puzzled because he couldnot find a brush cabana built by the Ger-mans. We finally found the ruins con-siderably to the right of the cane brake.This was the sector that Company A hadattacked. But Murphy, in his wildcharge, must have gotten there first. Oth-erwise there was no reason for his re-membering the cabana.

With the beachhead established, the3rd Division had driven swiftly up theRhone Valley, crushing with relative easeall enemy opposition until it approachedthe town of Montelimar. In this areawas the major part of the 338th GermanInfantry Division and portions of fourother divisions. With fast pincer move-ments, the Americans began an encircle-ment of the town. The Germans, fear-ing the trap, resorted to violent counter-attacks. Their only escape route lay atthe north of Montelimar.

The 1st Battalion of the 15th Infan-try Regiment, to which Murphy be-longed, was ordered to bypass the townand attempt to close the escape gap. Thebattalion had been moving and fightingfor twelve continuous days. The Ger-mans, guessing its maneuver, hit thebattle-weary men with a full regiment.But with three more days of incessant

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July, 1948 — Audie took Spec to the exact place where Lattie Tipton had been killedfour years earlier.

Courtesy of Sue Gossett

Thanks to the efforts of Audie’s friend Congressman Ralph Hall, the U.S. Army Center ofMilitary History sent Audie’s M-1 Carbine, Serial Number: 1108783, under military es-cort to the American Cotton Museum, Greenville, TX, for display during the 1998 AudieMurphy Day Celebration. This is the rifle Audie was holding when he was wounded bymortar fire. The concussion broke the stock but Audie wired it together and continued touse it, calling it his “lucky rifle.” The U.S. Army replaced the broken stock after Audieturned in the weapon at the end of the war.

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fighting, the battalion completed its mis-sion. For its “courage, gallantry, andskill,” the entire unit received a Presi-dential Citation.

In less than a month the 3rd Divi-sion was to drive four hundred miles. Incontrast to the bitter stalemates in Italy,the men were learning a slashing, fast-moving type of warfare. Murphy, al-ways a ready pupil, volunteered to takeout a reconnaissance patrol one foggynight. The battalion commander gavehim strict orders to do no shooting un-less absolutely necessary. His missionwas to pick up information. But in thefog he heard the clump of military bootsapproaching on a road, and he knew aGerman patrol was coming toward him.

Putting his men to one side of theroad, he fixed his bayonet on his rifle.He merely intended to kill the leader ofthe enemy patrol with a single lungethrough the fog. The bayonet apparentlyhit a bone. The German let out a yell,and the men on both sides started ashooting war. In reporting the incidentto a lieutenant colonel, Audie said: “Sir,a German started screaming out thereand we had to shoot.” The officer wea-rily looked at the young staff sergeant.“Yes, goddamnit, I know, Murphy,” hesaid. “You could not stay out of a scrapat a Peace Convention.”

The more old Army friends ofMurphy that I meet, the more do I hearfabulous stories of his exploits. In thedrive up the Rhone Valley, his platoonwas pinned down by air bursts from en-emy 88 millimeter cannons, which weremethodically destroying them. Theycould not retreat because the Germanshad them zeroed in. Raising his headoff the ground to study the situation,Audie spotted the enemy guns. Moreimportant: the Germans had stacks ofshells just back of the cannons. Swiftlyimprovising, he scuttled back and bor-rowed a bazooka. With it he fired sev-eral rockets directly into the ammunition,causing it to explode and routing theGermans. For this action, a lieutenantwho went after a tank got the Silver Star.Murphy, who had neutralized the enemy

emplacement, was not mentioned.So far his luck had been incredible.

In over a year of frontline fighting, hehad not received a wound. But on Sep-tember 15, 1944, he was fighting in awooded section near Vy-les-Lure. Hehad run an errand to the rear and wasreturning to his company when a mortarbarrage stopped him. He halted to waitfor the fire to lift. Some five yards awaywas a sergeant with several new replace-ments. They were also waiting for themortars to cease.

Murphy scarcely had time to hear theshell before it exploded at his feet. Hewas knocked unconscious. The rifle

which he had been holding at a “ready”position had its stock broken in half. Oneof Audie’s shoes had been partially tornoff and his foot was wounded. Other-wise he had been unharmed. Two of themen standing five yards away were dead.The mortar had exploded in the typicalcone-fashion, and Murphy was at the tip.He got the full force of the concussion,but only a fragment of the metal. Hewent to the rear to get a new pair of shoesand have his foot taken care of. In lessthan a week after earning his first PurpleHeart, he was back in the thick of fight-ing.

David “Spec” McClure1971

Courtesy of Eva Dano

Audie Murphy was presented with the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerrewith Palm in Paris, France by General de Lattre de Tassigny — July 19, 1948

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DRIVER’S LICENSE RECOVERED WITH WALLET

The leather wallet Audie was carrying when hewas killed was so badly burned that little was leftof it. However, his driver’s license was found inthe middle of the charred remains.

The driver’s license issued June 19, 1970, lessthan a year before the accident, answers somequestions people have had regarding Audie’sheight, weight and appearance at that time. Butmost interesting is the date of birth Audie wasusing — June 20, 1925 — not June 20, 1924 as theofficial records show.

As far back as the mid-50s Audie began ex-plaining the discrepancy in his birth dates. Whenworking with Audie on a treatment for a sequel toTO HELL AND BACK, tentatively titled HEL-METS IN THE DUST, Spec McClure wrote:“Audie Murphy joined the army on his seventeenthbirthday, having falsified his age to be eligible forenlistment.”

Thomas B. Morgan, who interviewed Audie in1967, later wrote: “Murphy acknowledged that hehad been nineteen years old at the end of hiscombat career, not twenty as the Army recordsshowed. At age seventeen, in 1942, he had liedabout his age, enlisting one year before he shouldhave been eligible for service.”

Needing a birth certificate in order to enlist, Audie’s oldest sisterCorinne assisted him in filing this birth certificate March 25, 1942.

Texas Department of Health — Bureau of Vital Statistics

AUDIE MURPHY’S DATE OF BIRTH

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

WALLET RECOVEREDWe are pleased to announce that Audie Murphy’s

wallet, which was taken from the crash site, has beenreturned to the Murphy family. No arrests were madebecause the holder voluntarily returned it — via UPS — tothe Audie Murphy Research Foundation. We wish to thankall of those who offered their assistance, especially JosephZacko, NTSB Investigator (retired); Tom Cottone, FBI;Pat Marshall, FBI; Mark Llewelyn, FBI; Cory Dudley,US Postal Service Investigator.

CATALOG

We have had many requests for the catalog the AudieMurphy Research Foundation is preparing. Because wewill be including books and videos from many sources, wehave had to enter into separate agreements with eachsupplier. In addition, we need to obtain clearances forcertain movie memorabilia in order to offer reproductonsof studio artwork. All of this is taking a bit longer than wehad anticipated. If you wish to receive a catalog pleasebe sure to check the appropriate box on the enclosedenvelope and return it to us.

TIMING OF THE NEWSLETTERDEPENDS ON CONTRIBUTIONS

The Foundation often receives inquiries regarding thetiming of the newsletters. Our goal is to send out fourissues per year. However, the cost of printing and mailingeach issue runs about $3,500. A new issue is sent out assoon as contributions are adequate to cover the costs. Weappreciate your patience. Many people have suggestedthat the Foundation begin charging for the newsletter.However, we feel that to do so would reduce the number ofpeople we can reach, especially school children.

We have the next issue ready to go. We are hoping toreceive enough contributions to enable us to mail it by theend of the year, which would meet our goal of sending outfour issues in 1998.

The 1999 Audie Murphy Days Celebration inGreenville, Texas, will be held April 9th, 10th and 11th.Events will include: a Friday evening hospitality room atthe American Cotton Museum: a Saturday parade,luncheon at a local country club, afternoon reception atthe Fletcher Warren Civic Center and concert at themunicipal auditorium followed by a barbecue at theAmerican Legion Hall. On Sunday, the American CottonMuseum will be conducting bus tours to places in Huntand Collin Counties associated with Audie Murphy. Forfurther information contact The American Cotton Museum,PO BOX 347, Greenville, TX 75403-0347. Phone: 903-450-4502. Email: amcotton@cyberramp.net

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