Oak Cliff's Justin F. Kimball High School
Justin Ford Kimball High School started in 1958, with its first graduating class in 1960. They are the Kimball Knights with colors Scarlett and Navy. The first principal was William P. Durrett.
Kimball High School
Kimball Knights Track, 1965
Kimball Drill Team, late 60s
Kimball Majorettes, 1968
Kimball Knight, 60s and 90s
Stevie Ray Vaughn (center) and Steve Tobolosky (right)
"Stephen Tobolowsky graduated from Kimball High School in 1969 and went on to the Meadows School of Arts at SMU. He married Ann Hearn. Since then he has gone on to have quite a successful acting career. He had significant roles in Groundhog Day with Bill M urray, The Grifters with Anjelica Huston and Annette Benning, Mississippi Burning with Gene Hackman and many others including an appearance on That 70’s Show on television. He also turned down the role of Al on Home Improvement. Steve was nominated for Ton y award as Best Featured Actor in a Play, for role in 'Morning's At Seven', May 2002."
Stevie Ray Vaughn's Double trouble album. "Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan attended Kimball High School. (He dropped out in 1972) Born in 1954 at Methodist Hospital, he picked up the guitar in 1963 and left home at 16 when his parents tried to stop his music career (over concern about alcohol a nd drugs). He joined the Nightcrawlers in 1973, the Cobras in 1974, and Triple Threat in 1977. Vaughan married in 1979 to Lenora. He renamed his group 'Double Trouble' in 1980 and signed with Epic Records in 1982. They released the album Texas Flood 1983 a nd Vaughan won his first Grammy in 1984. In 1986, he entered a London drug rehabilitation clinic. He recorded his first 'drug-free' album In Step in 1989 which climbed to #1 and earned him a second Grammy. Vaughan died in a helicopter crash on August 27, 1 990. He is buried in Oak Cliff at Laurel Land. Click for more. See info about Jimmy Vaughn below."
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