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October 1, 2025 5 mins
"What’s the most iconic front page in Dallas Morning News history — and why wasn’t Big Tex on fire number one?"In this laugh-filled and surprisingly emotional episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into a nostalgic and hilarious look at the Dallas Morning News’ 140th anniversary — and the top five most significant front pages in its history.From the JFK assassination to the Dallas Police ambush in 2016, and even the Bonnie and Clyde takedown in 1934, the crew debates which moments truly defined the city — and which ones should have made the list (spoiler: Big Tex catching fire and the Leaning Tower of Dallas get some passionate love).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show ninety seven point one The Eagle Friday three to six.
Join us at the Pluckers in Plano. It is Preston
and Parker. We're gonna have a really good time and
eat delicious food and we want to see you there.
That is Pluckers in Plano. But right now it's time
for this.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Are You Excited?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Day?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets. All right, So
the Dallas Morning News is one hundred and forty years
old this week, and they did some reader's poll that
I actually missed out on. And I like taking a
good poll, so I need you to go find it
and see if I could take it. But they asked
what is and they had a few options. What is

(00:43):
the most iconic front page of the Dallas Morning News
is history? So they gave you the options. Yes, okay,
they gave plenty of options. I have the top five.
The most significant is the most significant front page in
Dallas Morning News history.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I have the top five. I can tell you three
of them. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
One is going to be the Sad Saturday Massacre with
Jerry and Tom Landry and tech Shram and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's not was not Okay, what about nine to eleven?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, nine to eleven was not and then JFK jeffkm's
number one?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, by and it was the landslide. Exactly? Will you
give us a hint?

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do you find these to be local or national stories?
One national global, the rest local?

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, there's got to be a Cowboys super Bowl? Yes,
Cowboys first super Bowl? Okay, wait, the first one or
the one in ninety the first one? Oh so seventy five?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
When was that? The first of Bowl one would have
been nineteen.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, they won in seventy seven slash seventy eight. It
was when the super Bowls played, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Think the seventy two seventy two with the Dolphins twenty
four to three? Was that the seventy two undefeated Dolphins?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
No? So the seventy two super Bowls? The seventy one season.
So is that the only Cowboys one that's in the
top five? Yes? How about that?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
There are two?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Say this work? It's tough? Oh? One is?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
You go ahead? Is it when Big Text was on fire?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That shop I should have been. What about the Leaning
Tower of Dallas beautiful one as well?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
But no, I'll say one happened within the last ten years,
and one happened within the last two years.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Then probably Trump winning president.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Nope, one of them that happened in a long time.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Let me find this one the date, Oh the moon landing.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
No, it does have to do with something global happening though,
the total solar eclips passing through here two years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh okay, that was cool. That was a really fun time.
That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
It was I mean for us to be in the
area of that in the path, you know, yeah, I
mean that's pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
That was a fun broadcast day.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
It was.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
So one from way back in the day and one
from the last ten years, the last ten years, and
it's a awful thing.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh, pandemic stuff. Oh is it worse than that? Okay?
Oh well, I'm not going to power rank these. I
was thinking camp mystic, but.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's I think local, local, local, like really local, like
downtown Dallas.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh the pla Yeah, Oh yes, July seventh, twenty sixteen,
I believe.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
And the last one this would have happened in It
looks like nineteen thirty four. This would have been the
Bonnie and Clyde killing. Oh what a wild story that
would have been, right, Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do you have a picture of what they ran on
the front? I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm okay, I give them money. The Dallas Morning is
so uncomfortable criticizing them at times. Okay, and I do
believe you gotta.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Pay for it.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
That's good. I'm a little upset with their one hundred
and fortieth coverage. Could have been a little easier to
navigate find some of these things. Be asked to be
in the poll. I'm a paying member. Yeah, an email
asking me to participate in your poll.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, Ben, Our buddy Michael Hogue did a special un
you saw that.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
That pretty cool. He's the goatat he's the best. You
guys know him. Yeah, I love to just shake his hand,
you know what.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
He's he's not a big fan of yours, but he'd
like to meet Christina he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
That sounds like every That is every iHeart executive.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
We actually had a whole meeting about that earlier today.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
It was incredible because some iHeart executives they acted like,
you know, they were Earl Campbell running back in his prime,
and Kat was a defender. They stiff armed him and
pushed him out of the way to get to Carstina.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
To spend time with her. I'll just over here, all right.
There you have it.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
There is the weekly weekday update. Happy birthday to the
Dallas Morning News.
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