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1969 Chrysler Imperial similar to Parr's car. POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   MAY 24, 2018 On May 20, the Washington Post ran a story debunking the idea that Adolph Hitler had escaped alive and was living in the moon. About the same time, the Alice Echo-News Journal ran a story on the presentations made at the Jim Wells County District Courtroom on May 17 regarding George B. Parr and the Freedom Party. One reader commented on the newspaper’s Facebook Page that he was “not convinced Parr committed suicide. I think Parr was gonna roll over on LBJ and their involvement in JFK’s assassination in order to escape the tax evasion charges and LBJ just tied up some loose ends.” Or perhaps he was hiding out on the moon with Adolph. The fallacy of the comment is that LBJ would have had to do his shenanigans from the grave since he had been dead and buried for two years. Or maybe, he too was on the moon in a colony of political reprobates. This question also arose at the Q&A of ...

  Great turnout for Freedom Party event POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM MAY 20, 2018 Jim Wells County Historical Commission hosted presentations on George Parr and Freedom Party at Jim Wells County District Courtroom. Alfredo Cardenas made presentation on Freedom Party. JC Perez served as master of ceremonies. Nicole Perez Morris, made presentation on Parr Machine 1945-1955. Antonio “Tony” Bill spoke about Parr’s confrontation with Texas rangers. In last photo, Alfredo Cardenas with descendants of Saturnino Vera who were in attendance. Good crowd attended event. 5 COMMENTS ON "GREAT TURNOUT FOR FREEDOM PARTY EVENT" Emilie J. Olivares | May 29, 2018 at 2:13 pm | Reply (Edit) I wish I had been there, but I didn’t read the notification until after the event. My uncle, Noe P. Jimenez, was a WWII veteran and a member of the Freedom Party. alfredo@mcmbooks.com | May 30, 2018 at 2:32 pm | Reply (Edit) I knew Mr. Jimenez and his two sons well. Amando was my classmate. Mr. Jime...

1850 Census South Texas Spanish Land Grants POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   MAY 1, 2018 The first U.S. census taken of Texas was in 1850, after the state joined the Union. This first census includes information about the South Texas region, south of the Nueces River, that may be of interest to local historians and genealogists. After the U.S. war with Mexico ended, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo established the border at the Rio Grande River, the Texas Legislature created, on April 11, 1846, the county of Nueces out of San Patricio County. Nueces County, organized on July 12, 1846, consisted of the entire area south of the Nueces River. By the 1850 census, however, three other counties had been carved out of Nueces County: Webb on January 28, 1848, and Cameron and Starr two weeks later on February 12, 1848. (Luke Gournay. Texas Boundaries, Evolution of the State’s Counties, Texas A&M University Press.)   The 1850 Census of South Texas included only two counts...