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...believe there are two sides to a story. At the same time, jurors who regularly watch such reality-based police shows as America's Most Wanted may harbor strong law-and-order beliefs. "We want to find out what drives a potential juror to watch the shows," says John Gilleland, a jury consultant with FTI Corp. in Chicago. "It's a signal to look at a person more closely...
Died. Mrs. Rebecca Jane Gilleland Fisher, 94, affectionately known as "The Mother of Texas," 30 times President of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Mrs. Fisher, emigrated as an infant to the Republic of Texas (1836-45). Indians once left her for dead after tomahawking her father...
...Rebbecca Jane Gilleland, was born in Philadelphia in 1831. Hardly out of swaddling clothes she was carried to Texas with the rest of her family so that her father could join the fight to free Texas from Mexico. He did, and after it was over he and his wife were murdered by Indians, and Rebecca Jane, eight years old, and her young brother were carried away by the savages. Finally they knocked her on the head and ran him through the body and left them to die. But rescuers came...
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