[News Script: Miramar] Page: 3 of 6
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NiWTONS 2-2-2-2
years of abuse to the house by vandals. The house
has been locked in efforts to end acts of vandalism,
which began in 1943, the Newtons say, when rare books
in the house were destroyed. The couple moved out
in 1956, claiming they were in fear for their lives,
to threatening phone calls and continued destruct.
ion of the home.CU OF WOMAN
SWISH
Mrs. Robert Flemming, assistant to Mrs. Cosette Faust
Newton, shows a cross and a crown of thorns found on
the aUM lawn recently.
This was the house on a day in 1956, when Mrs. Newton
said she had put the house up for sale---to negroes
only.WORKERS CARRY SIGN
In ' y, 1956, u the Miramar was torn down. A
decision by the Texas Supreme Court agreed with a lower
court which said the yacht would have to bex removed.
Later , Mrs. Newton willed the house to the N-A-A-C-P,
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Miramar], script, March 22, 1962; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc946671/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.