| Vol 8, No 95 | April 5, 1962 | Thursday Evening |
(1976)
Following years of seclusion in Panama, Canada, London and Acapulco, Howard Hughes died on a plane en route from his residence in Mexico to a hospital in Houston. The Hughes fortune is estimated at $2 billion, prompting four hundred prospective heirs to attempt to inherit it. The fortune was eventually divided among twenty-two cousins on both sides of his family. Inheritance tax was claimed by California, Texas and Nevada. Hughes Aircraft eventually wound up under the ownership of a research hospital he founded in 1953, which sold it to Ford Motor Company for $5 billion.
On this date in 1934, Frank Glieber was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin. In 1960, Glieber became the original color commentator for the Dallas Cowboys. In 1963, he joined CBS Sports where he remained for the next 23 years, covering everything from football to golf, tennis, and bowling.
(1962)
One day after his accountant was found dead, Billie Sol Estes was Indicted on this date in 1962 on fifty-seven counts of fraud in swindling investors out of and the government out of $24 million of investments and grain subsidies.
