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About his famous confidence when seated face-to-face with intimidating subjects — one interview was with Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and minister of armaments — Ophuls was characteristically candid and self-effacing.

“He was so fantastically cooperative,” he said of Speer.

The leader was a company created by media executive Bud Paxson and lawyer and entrepreneur Roy Speer.

Created by bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, guitarist Mark Speer and drummer Donald "DJ" Johnson Jr., Khruangbin — which means Airplane — fuse their music with everything from Middle Eastern scales to Peruvian cumbia.

“We are relieved that Will Speer will live to see another day so he can continue to spread his message of hope and healing in Texas prisons,” said Amy Fly, one of Speer’s attorneys.