WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS

A work-in-progress by Jeff Boggs

It may get redundant, as you read the first chapters of the novel, but one thing 1966 was remembered for, was the horrible winter. Bitter cold temperatures in the teens, harsh winds, snow that closed the Springfield schools (unfortunately, I’m from Lebanon which really didn’t have snow days until I started attending school in the …

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Color on television was a big deal in the mid 60s. Television news was the last programs to switch to color. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite went to color in February of 1966. The Huntley & Brinkley Report on NBC & the ABC World News would not go to color broadcast until later …

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On this day, in 1966, the television show, Batman, debuted on ABC, staring Adam West & Burt Ward. However, it was not seen in Springfield, Missouri & the Ozarks until a week later, because there wasn’t a full time ABC affiliate in the Ozarks. It was shown a week later on the NBC affiliate, KYTV. …

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