For much of the 20th century and well into this one, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram was the most recognizable brand in town — the unquestioned authority on business, cops, courts, culture, religion, and sports.
If a deal was cut, a crime committed, a coach fired or money found under a pizza, a preacher, ahem, exposed or one firing a pistol in self-defense — or not — or a public fight worth having at City Hall, it showed up in the Star-Telegram. And if it didn’t appear there, that absence mattered because for generations, this was the first place Fort Worth looked to understand itself.
Everything we knew came from the Star-Telegram, Harold Taft, and Paul Harvey…