The day after Christmas a number of years ago, I was driving down a country road in Texas. The downtown branch of the public library there now bears his name.Ī Transcript of John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story In 1990, John Henry Faulk died of cancer in his hometown of Austin. Later in his career, Faulk appeared on Hee-Haw, wrote and produced the one-man plays Deep in the Heart and Pear Orchard, Texas, and made an unsuccessful bid for a congressional seat in 1983. Faulk's book, Fear on Trial, published in 1963, chronicles this experience. Murrow, won a libel suit against the corporation that branded him a Communist. He was blacklisted in 1957, but with support from Edward R. He later taught English at the University and served as a medic in the Marines during World War II.īefore the John Henry Faulk Show debuted in 1951 on WCBS Radio, Faulk hosted numerous radio programs in New York and New Jersey. For his master's thesis, he researched ten sermons in African-American churches and gained insight into the inequity of civil rights for people of color.

The fourth of five children, he attended the University of Texas. The gifted storyteller and former radio broadcaster John Henry Faulk recorded his Christmas story in 1974 for the program Voices in the Wind.įaulk was born to Methodist parents on August 21, 1913. To download, PC users right-click and select 'save target as.' Mac users control-click and 'save (or download) link as.'

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