Making the news 50 years ago: Councilman Charles Sharp called for the city to take over the Dallas Transit Co. in what appeared to be the beginnings of a mayoral bid. Seven-year-old Csongor Stelcz was reunited in Dallas with his parents, who had left him behind when fleeing the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Also, a three-alarm fire near the Public Market left six injured, and The News won top honors from the Headliners Club of Austin for its coverage of the Billie Sol Estes case. Read more snapshots from 1963 and our series on the anniversary of the JFK assassination, and share your remembrances, at dallasnews.com/jfk50.
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Sunday, Feb. 2, 1963, front page of The Dallas Morning News
Making the news 50 years ago: Councilman Charles Sharp called for the city to take over the Dallas Transit Co. in what appeared to be the beginnings of a mayoral bid. Seven-year-old Csongor Stelcz was reunited in Dallas with his parents, who had left him behind when fleeing the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Also, a three-alarm fire near the Public Market left six injured, and The News won top honors from the Headliners Club of Austin for its coverage of the Billie Sol Estes case. Read more snapshots from 1963 and our series on the anniversary of the JFK assassination, and share your remembrances, at dallasnews.com/jfk50.
Making the news 50 years ago: Councilman Charles Sharp called for the city to take over the Dallas Transit Co. in what appeared to be the beginnings of a mayoral bid. Seven-year-old Csongor Stelcz was reunited in Dallas with his parents, who had left him behind when fleeing the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Also, a three-alarm fire near the Public Market left six injured, and The News won top honors from the Headliners Club of Austin for its coverage of the Billie Sol Estes case. Read more snapshots from 1963 and our series on the anniversary of the JFK assassination, and share your remembrances, at dallasnews.com/jfk50.