Im jamie colby. And today, im driving in the badlands of eastern montana. Its rugged, bigsky, cattleranching country. Im on my way to meet a lifelong resident whose father left him a chunk of this land. Nice to have you here. Thanks for having us. My names Clayton Phipps. And in 1997, my father passed away, and i inherited from him a small portion of the family ranch. And along with that came a few pretty exciting surprises. 41yearold Clayton Phipps is like a character out of red river or lonesome dove. [ horse neighs ] most of the time, im on my own. Im happy that way. This ranch had been in our family since my greatgrandfather homesteaded here. And its a part of me that i just didnt feel like i wanted to ever part with. Clayton grew up and learned to cowboy here on the ranch his father shared with three brothers. He describes the operation as cashpoor but reasonably successful. My dad worked us hard, but that was a good thing, too. After claytons father dies in 1997, the ranch is spl
South houston, texas, on my way to meet an heir who wrote me. He said he had an incredible and highly valuable inheritance linking him to a texas legend and, by the way, a Baseball Team that won its first world series in 2017. My name is Robert Harper. When my father died in 2012, i inherited a customized luxury railcar, and theres some really colorful Texas History behind it, and i still dont know what the heck to do with it. Hi, im jamie. Robert harper. Its a pleasure to meet you. Welcome to South Houston. Okay. Robert leads me into a warehouse to show me his strange inheritance. What is it exactly . Its a fullsize railcar 44 feet long, 12 feet wide. It weighs 50,000 pounds. It sat here for 41 years. It belonged to judge roy hofheinz. Judgewho,you ask . Roy hofheinz, a boy wonder who had his own law firm at age 19, became a county judge, pioneered fm radio, and was elected mayor of houston in 1952. From the mayors office, the judge, as he was known, promises to transform houston from
Im going to call everybodys attention. It seems like youre all having great, which is the goal i to hear some talk about leadership at the tables with i want to introduce mr. Alvin townley name and as i introduce him i could stand up here and introduce him as youd introduce so many speakers could talk about the six books hes written are the emmy documentary that he was part of or that hes landed on three aircraft carriers in three oceans. But im not going to do that im actually going to talk about why we asked mr. Townley to be. So i was introduced to mr. Townley through mr. Sears, the director of innovation leadership innovation, the Stockdale Center, and he that mr. Townley would be a great speaker to kick off our homecoming 50th commemoration and and and as he talked about mr. And his writing of the alcatraz 11 and the p. O. W. S of vietnam and their families. But this is interesting could be a great start. And so i called mr. Townley and instantly i felt like i was sitting at the K
Its said that history is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of men. It is wise men and women who pay careful attention to the lessons of history. When prisoners of war returned home from their ordeal in the infamous hanoi hilton nearly 50 years ago, they brought with them hard won lessons about the value of unity and about the benefits of communication that they returned with their honor intact holds out funding, mental lessons. As our society deals with racial and political upheaval and an isolation imposed by a global pandemic. What lessons can we learn from those who have gone before . Before its too late. We will. Military men. We will professional warriors. They took me out to interrogation and they said, youre a criminal and you will be treated as a criminal, as was to be experienced in the next eight years. They did indeed resort to torture. Heres me getting beat with a van built. Things started to get rough. Things scratched when you got harsher and harsher. I took
Its said that history is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of men. It is wise men and women who pay careful attention to the lessons of history. When prisoners of war returned home from their ordeal in the infamous hanoi hilton nearly 50 years ago, they brought with them hard won lessons about the value of unity and about the benefits of communication that they returned with their honor intact holds out funding, mental lessons. As our society deals with racial and political upheaval and an isolation imposed by a global pandemic. What lessons can we learn from those who have gone before . Before its too late. We will. Military men. We will professional warriors. They took me out to interrogation and they said, youre a criminal and you will be treated as a criminal, as was to be experienced in the next eight years. They did indeed resort to torture. Heres me getting beat with a van built. Things started to get rough. Things scratched when you got harsher and harsher. I took