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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | M. Roberts Media |
| Publisher | Alexander Gould |
| Editor | Meredith Shamburger |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Headquarters | Kilgore, Texas |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 1,077(as of 2023) [1] |
| Website | kilgorenewsherald |
The Kilgore News Herald (KNH) also known as the Kilgore Daily News is an American daily newspaper based in city of Kilgore
Establshed in 1930. Lyde Williford Devall and Charles K. Devall owned and published the Kilgore News Herald from 1940 to 1979. [2] In 2018, Bluebonnet Publishing sold the newspaper to M. Roberts Media, [3] [4] as part of a strategic move to enhance local news coverage and facilitate a transition into a digitally integrated noting the newspaper's "historic roots stretching back to the early days of the East Texas oil boom," highlighting its longstanding role and its important history. [5] then was acquired by Carpenter Media Group in 2024. [6]
In the Kilgore News Herald from February 6, 1934, there are two intriguing stories about Bonnie and Clyde. One details how former Police Chief Bob Goss of Kilgore, [7] and a man named Will Fritz once arrested Clyde Barrow. Next to this, another headline reads: "BARROW, BONNIE SEEN IN E. TEX." This was just a few months before the pair were killed by lawmen in Louisiana.
Former News Herald reporter Bob Cone describes Clyde Barrow as an "elusive, event phantom-like desperado." Then states, "Barrow is bad. Barrow is bold. That's about the way Goss puts it.
"It emphasizes that Barrow is much more desperate today than he was back there when he was launching his career of crime" - Police Chief Bob Goss (Texas Ranger)
and reflects on his earlier arrest by Goss and Fritz.
When asked if he thought Barrow would confront officers with his guns, Goss replied without hesitation, {{cquote|"Yes.", ”He's desperate. He knows it will be too bad for him if he is captured." - Police Chief Bob Goss (Texas Ranger) [8]
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