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Thomas Jefferson High School, class of 1960
Port Arthur, Texas
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Janis Joplin graduated from here in 1960, remembered locally less for singing than for being tormented. Jimmy Johnson, who later won a national championship at Miami and two Super Bowls in Dallas, was in the building at the same time. Robert Rauschenberg came out of the same Port Arthur schools a generation earlier. This was the white high school under segregation, and it closed in 2002 when the district merged its campuses.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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