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#1: Composite image of early photo of Bill Lancaster and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Bill Lancaster's paternal grandfather, Joe Allen Lancaster; April 24, 1860
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#3: Bill Lancaster's paternal grandmother, Annie Lancaster
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#4: Bill Lancaster's father, Joe Donham Lancaster (front row, 2nd from right), with classmates of Little Creek School, Sheridan, Arkansas
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#5: Bill Lancaster's mother, Pauline Speck Lancaster (back row, left), and her siblings, ca. 1916
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#6: Bill Lancaster's uncle, James Odell Speck, ca. 1918
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#7: Bill Lancaster's aunt, Odie Moore; his great-grandmother, Elizabeth Mildred Vance Sevier; Moore's son, Bill Moore Jr.; and great-grandfather, Joseph Windle Sevier
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#8: Bill Lancaster's maternal grandmother, Mary Alyce Sevier Speck; October 16, 1930
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#9: Bill Lancaster's maternal grandparents, Mary Alyce Sevier and Arch Willard Speck, Sheridan, Arkansas
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#10: Bill Lancaster, 1 year, 6 months old, 1948
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#11: Bill Lancaster, first grade, 1952
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#12: Bill Lancaster and his brother, Bob, ca. 1954
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#13: Bill Lancaster
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#14: Bill Lancaster and family, 1956
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#15: Bill Lancaster (back row, 3rd from left) with the Court Square baseball team
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#16: Bill Lancaster, state batting champion, 1964
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#17: Bill Lancaster, high school football photo
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#18: Bill Lancaster and his cousin, Gopher, 1965
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#19: Bill Lancaster (back row, 2nd from right) with family, 1966
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#20: Bill Lancaster's father, Joe Lancaster, in front of Bill Lancaster's childhood home; Sheridan, Arkansas, 1966
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#21: Bill Lancaster's mother, Pauline Speck Lancaster, 1969
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#22: Governor Frank White and Bill Lancaster on a hunting trip, 1982
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#23: Bill Lancaster with his son, Eric, and daughter, Leslie, 1983
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#24: Bill Lancaster, Cliff Hoofman, and Jack McCoy on a fishing trip
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#25: Bill Lancaster's mother, Pauline Speck Lancaster, ca. 1986
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#26: Bill Lancaster (left) and Muhammad Ali
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#27: Bill Lancaster (1st photo: right; 2nd photo: 2nd from left) with friends at the Ben Hogan Texarkana Open/David Pryor Pro-Am, 1992
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#28: Bill Lancaster (right) with President-elect Bill Clinton, 1992
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#29: Playbill for a Bill Lancaster comedy show, December 1992
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#30: Bill Lancaster (left) and Nolan Richardson at the Arkansas Senate, 1994
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#31: Bill Lancaster, 1996
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#32: Bill Lancaster, 1999
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#33: Bill Lancaster, chief of staff of the Arkansas state senate, next to his parking space; Little Rock, Arkansas
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#34: Bill Lancaster, chief of staff of the state senate, in his office in the Arkansas State Capitol building; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2003
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#35: Bill Lancaster (left) and actor, Andy Griffith, 2003
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#36: Bill Lancaster (right) and Jim Hill, Arkansas state senator
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#37: Bill Lancaster and his wife, Scarlet Lancaster, 2005
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#38: Bill Lancaster with Worm Club friends in Mike Beebe's room when he was elected governor of Arkansas; (back row) Don Tilton, Rocky Willmuth, Bill Lancaster, Jon Fitch; (front row) Ed Drilling, 2006
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#39: Bill Lancaster (right) with Governor Mike Beebe, 2012
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#40: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Bill Lancaster; Sheridan, Arkansas, 2012
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#41: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Bill Lancaster; Sheridan, Arkansas, 2012
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#42: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Bill Lancaster; Sheridan, Arkansas, 2012
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#43: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Bill Lancaster; Sheridan, Arkansas, 2012
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