In this 1968 news segment for Houston's KPRC-TV, reporter Lee Tucker recounts the history of #Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa (previously named the Brown Mansion seen in this footage) and read the contents of 'General Order No. 3,' announcing the abolition of slavery in Texas. Statewide festivities commemorating the date, known as Juneteenth, began shortly thereafter. Texas became the first state to establish Juneteenth

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