Rodeo
The murder
Background
Life in prison
After being released
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What year did he quit the rodeo?
By 1961 he was a traveling salesmen www.wiki.com
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Were was the murder committed?
It was in Louisianna. www.wiki.com
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What year was he born?
He was born November 30, 1911 Eula, Callahan County Texas, USA. www.wiki.com
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Who wanted Favor to have another trail?
Favor's attorney, Joe T. Cawthorn of Mansfield and Shreveport, who served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1940 to 1944, died, and his co-counsel, James B. Wells of Bossier City, who believed in Favor's innocence, began to work pro bono to procure a second trial. This required a lawsuit against the then warden at Angola, C. Murray Henderson. www.wiki.com
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What year was he released?
In 1974, in a retrial he was cleared of the crime and released. www.wiki.com
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what was his time of his unbeaten record?
The record of 2.2 seconds remains unbeaten, but it has been matched by James "Big Jim" Bynum www.wiki.com
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Why were they murdered?
Because the murders thought they had $6,000 www.wiki.com
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Who were his parents?
He was the son of Robert Dixon Favor and Georgia Graves. www.wiki.com
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Who was the judge?
The trial judge, O. E. Price, who was thereafter elected to the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in Shreveport, ruled that the jury could not hear the testimony of Donald Lee Yates, which could have refuted the impact of Cumbey's claims. www.wiki.com
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What year did he get into the Cowboy Hall of Fame?
Favor was also inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1978. www.wiki.com
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What were his main passions?
Mainly bulldogging and bronco riding. www.wiki.com
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Who was murdered?
It was Mr. And Mrs. W. T. Richly. www.wiki.com
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What were his jobs befor the rodeo?
He graduated in 1929 from Abilene High School and began his first of two stints in the United States Navy. On his return to Texas in 1932 at the beginning of the Great Depression, Favor worked on a dairy farm and then as a truck driver for a plumbing supply company. www.wiki.com www.wiki.com
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What did he say to his inmates?
Favor had never backed down from physical confrontations and sometimes seemed to provoke fights. In prison, he let the other inmates know that he would not be intimidated by anyone nor join any gangs. www.wiki.com
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What did he die from?
Favor died of pancreatic cancer at the age of seventy-seven. www.wiki.com
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When did get put in the stock yard's walk of fame?
On October 25 2009. www.wiki.com
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Who were the murders
Floyd Edward Cumbey (1936-1998) and Donald Lee Yates. www.wiki.com
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Who did he marry?
Divorced after a brief marriage, Favor married the former Ponder Irene Rhodes (1914-1993) on October 14, 1941 in Callahan County, Texas. www.wiki.com
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Who arrested Favor?
Waggonner then arrested Favor while he had the chance, and the district attorney, Louis H. Padgett, Jr. (1913-1980), brought forth murder charges against the former rodeo star. www.wiki.com
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What were his believes and what church did he go to?
Favor was a long-time member of the First United Methodist Church of Arlington, Texas. He attributed his faith in Jesus Christ as essential to his surviving his imprisonment. At first Favor looked upon his imprisonment as a type of Christian mission outreach and expected the injustice he endured would quickly end and that justice would prevail. He was active in the group Cowboys for Christ. His Christian views impacted his interest in prison reform, for which he argued on behalf of county prisons in which inmates must perform public works, rather than confinement in a heavily-guarded statewide facility. www.wiki.com
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What job did he have before the rodeo?
He was a dairy farmer. www.wiki.com
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How long did the real murders stay in jail?
The jurors who convicted Favor, however, had been told that Cumbey would serve a term in the state penitentiary. Unlike Cumbey, Yates was given life imprisonment in the case. www.wiki.com
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Who were his children?
From second marriage: Juanita Jane Favor Jacobs Janice Kay Favor Kitterman and Tommy Ray Favor. www.wiki.com
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What did Favor start in prison?
Favor quickly took the lead in turning the struggling prison rodeo into a professional production, which was first opened to the public in 1967. The rodeo draws thousands of annual visitors. He instilled self-discipline in the prisoners involved in rodeo and formed a chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Prison authorities permitted Favor to travel across the state to promote the rodeo. He earmarked funds raised through the rodeo to finance emergency trips for inmates, under guard. www.wiki.com
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What happened to his legend after he died?
The actor Clint Black played the role of Favor in the 1998 television film, Still Holding On: The Legend of Cadillac Jack. Black also performed a country song entitled "Still Holding On". Black's wife, Lisa Hartman Black, played Jack's wife, Ponder.[9] The Favors had two daughters, Juanita Jane Favor (born 1944) and Janice Kay Favor Kitterman (born 1947), and a son, Tommy Ray Favor (born 1950). Favor's oldest daughter was tasked with handling all affairs related to Favor's story rights and ultimately was successful in bringing her parents' story to the screen. After prison, Favor returned to Arlington, where he sold used cars but found time to lecture youth on the perils of lawless behavior. www.wiki.com
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