Oral History Interview with Wick Fowler, May 23, 1968 Page: 2
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Fowler
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and Saturday. And I left there about 1930 and went to Austin,
the University, a couple of years. Then I got a job on an
Austin newspaper. I knew very little about newspapering
then. I tried to study it on my own, and the depression was
very bad and the job played out. And I went to Europe on a
freighter for winter. I was in Germany when Hitler came into
power. It was quite exciting. I came back on a newspaper.
Then I became a policeman there to study police reporting.
I was going to stay six months, and I stayed two years,
wound up as detective. And I made...you know ten times as
much as you could make on a newspaper. I went back to the
newspaper and later went with the Highway Patrol chasing
after people up and down the highways on a motorcycle.
Odom: Were you a detective...you found out. Was this with the Austin
Police force?
Fowler: Yes. Yes.
Odom: I see.
Fowler: And they used me as kind of a college-looking kid to bait
people, stuff like that. Undercover work.
Odom: Yes. I see.
Fowler: And I was in the Highway Patrol two years. And I then I was...
went with the Dies committee on...on Un-American Activities.
I traveled some...with Congressman Dies all over the country
for about three years.
Odom: This is when he conducted investigations and you travelledwith him.
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Odom, E. Dale & Fowler, Wick. Oral History Interview with Wick Fowler, May 23, 1968, book, August 31, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223565/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.