The history of Mississippi has touched many areas that we can say truly made a differences one in particular Jack Cristal, Without Cristal football as we know it, would not be heard. Also Clyde Kennard, the three civil rights workers, Gladys Noel Bates, and Aaron Henry were part of the Mississippi History here is some facts on what they did during those times.
In 1953 Jack Cristal broadcasts his first Mississippi state football game, Jack was a father of two children early at a young age he listening to radio stations traveling from Pittsburgh, St. Louis , Chicago where he knew then he wanted to be a radio broadcaster in 1947, he studied broadcast journalism at the university of Minnesota he then started his career sending an audition tape to the MSU athletic director he then began to broadcast Mississippi state football games. Jack later on retired after the men’s basketball game against Louisiana state university on February 23,2011 he then cited health issues after stepping down from 58 years of broadcasting Jack also broadcasted basketball games too his first football game he broadcasted a Mississippi win
In 1953 Jack Cristal broadcasts his first Mississippi state football game, Jack was a father of two children early at a young age he listening to radio stations traveling from Pittsburgh, St. Louis , Chicago where he knew then he wanted to be a radio broadcaster in 1947, he studied broadcast journalism at the university of Minnesota he then started his career sending an audition tape to the MSU athletic director he then began to broadcast Mississippi state football games. Jack later on retired after the men’s basketball game against Louisiana state university on February 23,2011 he then cited health issues after stepping down from 58 years of broadcasting Jack also broadcasted basketball games too his first football game he broadcasted a Mississippi win