Nighthawk

Trails of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae's Ranger, Chase Pearson. Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers. Some places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.

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Now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the case called Nighthawk. It is 1230 on a Friday night early in June, 1948. In the town of Tipton, Texas, the graduation dance at Carol College has been over for half an hour.

Two miles outside town, a car drives toward a small airfield, used during the day as a landing place for a few private planes. The field and the single hangar are dark as the car rolls to a stop on the road bordering the field.