Billy Don “Bill” Moyers was a journalist who served in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. He was well known in media for his political observations. Moyers was born June 5, 1934 in Hugo, Choctaw County, in southeastern Oklahoma to John Henry Moyers and Ruby Jewell Johnson Moyers. The couple had two sons, Jim and Bill. By the time the 1940 census was recorded, the family had moved to Marshall, Texas. Both Jim and Bill graduated from high school in Marshall. Jim earned a B. A. degree from University of North Texas (then known as North Texas State College). Bill attended North Texas for two years before transferring to University of Texas at Austin.
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