"John Thomas Blades" was an Australian experimental music artist and member of The Loop Orchestra; he also worked as a radio broadcaster and documentary maker, and as a civil engineer. In 1982 he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and used a wheelchair from 1993. In 2010, his radio documentary, The Too Hard Basket, won the Walkley Awards/Walkley Award for 'Social Equity Journalism – All Media', and the 'Radio Documentary of the Year Award' from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Blades died on 25 November 2011 after complications from cancer therapy.

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It is especially meaningful to us, because Judge Knott was one of our trustees for more than a quarter of a century.

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There's so many rare documents that you may never get the opportunity to see again. Anybody that's interested in Texas ought to come.

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