Oral History Interview with Mollie Finch Belt, November 5, 2018 Page: 1
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Interviewee: Mollie Finch-Belt
Interviewer: Jasmine Johnson, Kelcei Young, Amani Wells, Brianna Moore
Interview Date: November 5, 2018, Dallas, Texas
Jasmine: So, first question is how long have you been publisher here?
Mollie: Since 1986.
Jasmine: 1986.
Mollie: My father started the newspaper in 1986. And urn-he and my mother were murdered in
their home. You may have read about that.
Jasmine: Yes ma'am.
Mollie: And so, I was the only child. So, the only heir, so I inherited the newspaper. He had just
started it, probably just be-it has always been a weekly newspaper. But he had not printed that
many issues when he and my mother were murdered. So, I've been publisher a long time.
Jasmine: And so, on our information sheet it said he'd only printed one issue. Do you know if
that
Mollie: That may be about right.
Jasmine: Okay.
Mollie: We can look when we go-there's a conference room upstairs and I have the very first
edition of the paper in that frame. So, it might have been-I don't remember seeing a lot of
issues. It probably was about one, because-did it say February?
Jasmine: It didn't say a date. It just said he'd only published one. And how old were you when
you had to take over?
Mollie: Oh, I don't remember that. I'm 75 now. And it was in 1986. I was born in 1943. So, you
can figure that out. And I was a career government employee. And I was working for the US
Department of Health and Human Services, region five in Dallas. And I tried to-
Mollie: Well, after my parents were murdered, I took a leave-a year's leave of absence. And I
worked at the paper because the paper had just started, you know, and we had to join a lot of
organizations in order to get national news-in order to get advertising. Because at that time, and
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Johnson, Jasmine C.; Young, Kelcei; Weplls, Amani; Moore, Briana & Belt, Mollie, 1943-. Oral History Interview with Mollie Finch Belt, November 5, 2018, text, November 5, 2018; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1137529/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism.