Word: bier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First Williams' Confederate flag-draped bier was placed in the Houston Civil Courts Building for three days, and more than 5,000 filed by to gaze at the frail, wrinkled figure, resplendent in the grey-and-gold uniform of an honorary Confederate general. At a public ceremony in the Houston Music Hall, Texas Governor Price Daniel and representatives of ten other Southern Governors, plus federal and military dignitaries, heard the fife-and-drum corps play his favorites: Dixie, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and The Yellow Rose of Texas. Said U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough: "He was the last warrior...