Interviews with Marvin Ducote and Tom Pears
Interview with Marvin Ducote:
00:00 - Attitude of the public towards hippies and protesters;
00:55 - atomic safety;
01:30 - Would attend 2-3 lectures on various subjects per week during basic training;
03:44 - Basic training with a Lithuanian serviceman;
06:00 - First got a television in the 60s, his mother probably got one by 1954;
06:30 - French/local programming on television;
10:00 - Interview with Tom Pears:
11:15 - His mother was a radio announcer on KVOL from 1942-1945;
12:00 - Pears joined his parents in Texas after WWII to go to school, was so unhappy he moved back to Lafayette
12:55 - G.I. Bill;
14:40 - Job search; finally got a job at KVOL making 25 cents/hour;
17:00 - Worked at KVOL for 11 years
17:30 - Received an offer to manage a furniture store where he would receive a furnished house, a Cadillac and made $5,000/year - Talked to his boss at KVOL about it, decided to pass.
20:30 - the Declouets build KLFY-TV, Pears starts working there as the General Manager;
25:00 - Declouet tells Pears that the station is for sale, purchase by people in Waco, Pears continued working for them;
28:45 - Got a company car after the station was bought out;
