Observer Radio Episode 85: Battleground Texas, plus The Great Hanging by Patrick Michels and Jen Reel November 21, 2014, 2:37 PM, CST Two years after the incident, news of the Great Hanging made its way east. This depiction, from the Feb. 20, 1864, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, is apocryphal—the victims were actually hanged one or two at a time. [powerpress] You May Also Like Ben Sargent’s Loon Star State: Non-Voters, Non-Government by Ben Sargent Observer Radio Episode 84: Post-Election Wrap-Up by Patrick Michels and Jen Reel Listen: Texas Observer’s Post-Election Wrap-Up by Forrest Wilder and Jen Reel