Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people; reflections on Luis Salas; the Jim Wells County hearings; impressions of different local personalities involved; the Floyd murder; opinion of Haley book; Blake Gillen; Edgar Linkenhoger and Sam Houston Johnson; version of what happened to Box 13; Rowe's manuscript about Parr; change in the local system; comparison of Caro and Dugger books; history of the area