[News Script: Old man] Part: 1 of 4
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There' s a mamrnouth frame home on the outskirts
of Midlothian known as the Dorsett place. And,
the tUelcome mat ie out today and tomorrow for
friends and relatives of Thomas Jefferson Dorsett
who has "just kept on living" for one hundred years.
Five generations of hio family have gathered tohelP him celebrate.
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A1aoni :: i anriy birthday gr=,etings is one from
President Kennedy. It reads, "My sincerecon ratulations on your birthday.
lay good health
be yours through many more happy years. " Signed
John F. Kennedy. Says Dorsett, "Shucks, I bet he
seeds one of them things to everybody on their
hundredth birthday. Dorsett once
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Old man], item, June 24, 1961; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc975720/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.