John Clark Hurst

Read in Owen's signed-in browser 31 Oct 2026 (newspapers.com image 1301006118, highlight 2 of 11 on the page). "WASHINGTON (AP) - Twenty-five servicemen killed in action in the Vietnam war were named Tuesday in a Defense Department casualty list. They included:" under "Marine Corps": "Capt. John C. Hurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Hurst, 915 Evans Drive, Lufkin." He is in the killed-in-action list, not under "Died of Wounds" or "Changed from Missing to Dead". The same list ran that day in the Shreveport Times, Odessa American, Longview Daily News, Laredo Morning Times, Midland Reporter-Telegram and two San Antonio papers (search results only, not read).

Read 31 Oct 2026 by WebFetch. A 2010 profile of his widow, who "came to The University of Texas at Austin from Lufkin as a freshman in 1960". It names her son by her "first husband John Hurst, a University of Texas graduate and Marine pilot who died in Vietnam in 1968", her two daughters and her stepdaughter, and "her husband of 40 years, Buddy Temple". The living people it names are not repeated here; the article is at the address above.

Read 31 Oct 2026 by WebFetch. "CAPT John Clark Hurst", on the Wall as "JOHN C HURST"; dates "July 30, 1941 to July 13, 1968"; home of record Lufkin, Texas; Panel W52, Line 23. The loss: pilot of an F-4B of VMFA-115 at Chu Lai on a close air support mission about 10 miles south of Khe Sanh; "The F-4 was hit by ground fire during its second pass at the target"; "Their bodies have not been recovered." Declared killed in action. Khe Sanh lies in Quang Tri Province, which is the death place entered. No wife or son is named on the page.