He grew up on a South Texas farm and enlisted in the Army in World War II. He was captured by Japanese forces after the fall of Corregidor and spent 3 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. Towery's nation honored him with a Purple Heart and other decorations.
His postwar journalism career was highlighted by a 1955 Pulitzer Prize for his Cuero Record reports on fraud in the state's Veterans Land Program.
Too bad he didn’t investigate the ballot buying and ballot box stuffing 1948 senate election that LBJ stole. If it had been an honest election (LBJ literally stole and/or bought tens of thousands of votes) none of us would have ever heard of LBJ.