Background
Clinton Howard Swindle was born in Houston, Texas on November 20, 1945. He was born to Clinton Swindle and Woodye Shipman.
Clinton Howard Swindle was born in Houston, Texas on November 20, 1945. He was born to Clinton Swindle and Woodye Shipman.
Told it was not worthwhile to go to college by a high school counselor, Howard Swindle was later accepted into the University of North Texas, and studied journalism.
Attending Hamilton High School and playing on the Bulldogs football and basketball teams, Howard Swindle would work weekends at Howard Shipman"s ranch in Indian Gap. Shortly after graduation from UNT (1968), he worked for a short time at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. definitely impacted Howard Swindle, and even his writing. His first book, Once a Hero, published in 1991 nonetheless, was about a helicopter pilot in who robbed banks using helicopters.
Awarded Honorman of his basic training company, Howard Swindle went to a signal intelligence school at Corey Field in Pensacola, Florida, and was later assigned to the United States Ship Oklahoma City, a cruiser patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin in North One of his later stories involved receiving a message from President Nixon, to give to the Commander of the Seventh Fleet before Operation Moneypenny, or the mining of Haiphong Harbor.
After serving a longer-than-usual tour of 14 months, Howard Swindle was honorably discharged from the Navy, and returned to Dallas, where he got a job at The Dallas Times Herald, which he lost in the mid-70s over a dispute with an editor over a news story. lieutenant was discovered in late December 1998 that Howard Swindle had esophageal cancer, and he underwent surgery in January 1999.
After his surgery, he lost a substantial amount of weight that he never regained with chemotherapy. After a lengthy recovery, it was discovered three years later in 2002 that he had a small tumor in his lung, which was taken out without trouble.
In December 2003, he was again diagnosed with lung cancer, though they could not operate with the amount of scar tissue from the previous operation.
Undergoing an experimental drug program in San Antonio, in April he started to decline, and moved in with family friends in Stephenville, Texas, where he later died on June 9, 2004.