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  • "In the first uniforms, the gold was more antique looking," recalled Becknell, who still represents Mecom.

    New Orleans Saints Central Susan Langenhennig, The Times-Picayune 2009

  • "In the first uniforms, the gold was more antique looking," recalled Becknell, who still represents Mecom.

    New Orleans Saints Central 2009

  • Becknell says the plaintiffs 'lawyers have already engaged a broad range of experts to test the waters, photograph the shoreline and videotape the wildlife before oil comes ashore so as to have a baseline to compare to.

    Legal Action Against Spill Spreads Across Gulf Coast 2010

  • Becknell says to imagine a cash register and with each passing week you put two fingers on the keys, press down and increase the economic impact by $10 billion.

    Legal Action Against Spill Spreads Across Gulf Coast 2010

  • Hours after last Thursday's clemency hearing, Becknell says a former prison cellmate of Williams came forward claiming he has proof the former Crips leader was framed.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2005 2005

  • According to Becknell, the cell mate said evidence given by another cell mate, one of the key prosecution witnesses, was tainted in that the witness was allegedly coached by law enforcement.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2005 2005

  • There Becknell, who was in reality a man of the then "Frontier," bold, plucky, and endowed with excellent sense, conceived the ridiculous idea of striking directly across the country for Santa Fe through a region absolutely unexplored; his excuse for this rash movement being that he desired to avoid the rough and circuitous mountain route he had travelled on his first trip to Taos.

    The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

  • In 1812 a Captain Becknell, who had been on a trading expedition to the country of the Comanches in the summer of 1811, and had done remarkably well, determined the next season to change his objective point to Santa Fe, and instead of the tedious process of bartering with the Indians, to sell out his stock to the New Mexicans.

    The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

  • By then, Becknell and Brees and the Saints fan base could dare to consider the possibilities.

    NYT > Home Page By GREG BISHOP 2010

  • Becknell is something of an unofficial team historian and has watched every quarterback in the history of this franchise.

    NYT > Home Page By GREG BISHOP 2010

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