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The article focuses on "Texas Observer," the biweekly newspaper established by Ronnie Dugger, who has a passion to reveal various corruptions. It says that the newspaper was able to provide enthusiasm and sensibility for Texas. It states that the newspaper started to become weak due to various losses, but it has exhibited signs of revival wherein its issue reported the presence of black athletes at the El Paso, Texas branch of University of Texas.

The article features former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson. According to Johnson's friends, he was a hill-country rancher who helps lay irrigation pipe, worries on the weather and his cattle and works on his papers and memoirs. It relates that the Austin, Texas became a major administrative center during his tenure as vice-president and president of U.S., adding about 5,000 jobs to the area. Moreover, Ronnie Dugger of "Texas Observer" speculates that Johnson has retreated into history.

The article focuses on events involving the mass murder in the University of Texas in Austin, Texas by Charles Joseph Whitman in August 1966. It reports that the mass murder, which was done in the observation deck of a limestone tower above the university, left 13 people dead and 31 wounded. It explains that the psychosis of Whitman, who also killed his wife and mother before the murder, can be attributed to the role of his father in shaping his behavior and his relationship with his mother.

The article focuses on the insurance policies on Lyndon B. Johnson's life that Don B. Reynolds sell in return of the 1,208 U.S. dollars advertising on the Austin, Texas television station of Lady Bird Johnson. It mentions the answer of Walter Jenkins on his knowledge about the plan of Reynolds to purchase advertising time. It adds that Huff Baines, a cousin of Johnson and a local agent is the one who become interested in selling the policies.

The article offers information on the mass murder committed by 18-year-old Robert Benjamin Smith at the Rose-Mar College of Beauty in Mesa, Arizona in November 1966. It says that Smith entered the school and ordered everyone there, including a baby, a three-year-old girl, and five women, into a back room. The police, called by Eveline Cummings, arrested Smith, who announced that he just wanted to get known. The girl and four women were shot dead, while the baby and another woman were injured.