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Frank in Tiny (Billy Jack) Hat


I don’t know what to say about this picture. I have NO idea. We are on the ranch where the final scene in the church was shot, where the roping and riding sequences were shot, where the shootout was shot. Why I’m standing with the boots and hat (which really is too small for me, and always hurt to put on my head), I have no idea.

Tom & Fred Koenekamp Plan


In order to shoot a movie low budget and not suffer poor quality you have to be able to plan, and plan, and plan. It’s hard work, but when you don’t have much money, it’s the only way to…

Clark Howat (Sheriff Cole)


Mr. Howat performed the scene with members of The Committee (including Howard Hessman) who had been performing that skit nightly, but didn’t miss a beat. I was very impressed that someone who seemed like a poster child of the ‘older generation’ could get so hip so easily…

Bert Freed (Stewart Posner)


Bert Freed was a very accomplished actor with a long career behind (and ahead of him). He had appeared in over a hundred films before ‘Billy Jack’, and half as many…

TC (Teresa) at Last!


First, Teresa Kelly, aka Teresa Laughlin, aka TC Laughlin, will heretofore be referred to by her given name (given by her brother, me…): TC. How’d that come to be? I was three when she was born…