Adapted from
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House company. Copyright Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, 2021.
Kaye Tucker thought she had come up with a clever idea. If everything fell into place just right, she could accomplish two things at once: transform the Alamo into a world-class historical site and help an aging British rock star clean out his basement.
The path to that strange opportunity began about a decade ago, when Tucker was given an important assignment. A mid-level bureaucrat in the General Land Office, she was tasked with helping turn things around at the Alamo, where visitor surveys show that most tourists are disappointed with the outdated exhibits and lowbrow surroundings. In 2011 the Texas Legislature had asked land commissioner Jerry Patterson to shore up the
eight alleged victims to the game and threatened to send the boy home when he resisted his sexual advances. the campus gears up for the senior game tomorrow without head coach joe paterno who was fired and without assistant coach mike mcqueary who has been side lined. you can t really please everyone. mike mcqueary will not be at bevary stadium. the university says u.s. because he s gotten so many threats. according to the indictment it was mcqueary who saw former assistant jerry sandusky rape a young boy in a campus shower back in 2002. mcqueary told joe paterno but did not call police. a lot of people probably think he should have done more. mcqueary, allegedly saw is only one of multiple charges against sandusky dating back to 1996. that s when he touched a young boy in a shower. two years later he took a different boy in the shower. that boy s mother confronted sandusky with campus police listening in. he admitted to what happened but didn t agree to stop. a detec
eight alleged victims to the game and threatened to send the boy home when he resisted his sexual advances. the campus gears up for the senior game tomorrow without head coach joe paterno who was fired and without assistant coach mike mcqueary who has been side lined. you can t really please everyone. mike mcqueary will not be at bevary stadium. the university says u.s. because he s gotten so many threats. according to the indictment it was mcqueary who saw former assistant jerry sandusky rape a young boy in a campus shower back in 2002. mcqueary told joe paterno but did not call police. a lot of people probably think he should have done more. mcqueary, allegedly saw is only one of multiple charges against sandusky dating back to 1996. that s when he touched a young boy in a shower. two years later he took a different boy in the shower. that boy s mother confronted sandusky with campus police listening in. he admitted to what happened but didn t agree to stop. a detec