Editing Michael Nesmith (section)

==Early life==
Nesmith was born in [[Houston]] on December 30, 1942.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carlin |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LluEHF1oT-wC&pg=PA145 |title=Folk |date=2005 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-0-8160-6978-1 |pages=145 |language=en}}</ref> He was an only child; his parents, Warren and [[Bette Nesmith Graham|Bette Nesmith]] (née McMurray), divorced when he was four. His mother married Robert Graham in 1962, and they remained married until 1975. Nesmith and his mother moved to [[Dallas]] to be closer to her family. She took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphic design, eventually attaining the position of executive secretary at Texas Bank and Trust. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as [[Liquid Paper]]. Over the next 25 years, she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into an international company, which she sold to [[Gillette (brand)|Gillette]] in 1979 for $47.5 million. She died a few months later at the age of 56.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bette Nesmith Graham: Liquid Paper Inventor |url=http://www.women-inventors.com/Bette-Nesmith-Graham.asp |website=Women-inventors.com |access-date=April 3, 2012}}</ref>

Nesmith attended [[Thomas Jefferson High School (Dallas)|Thomas Jefferson High School]] in Dallas, where he participated in choral and drama activities,<ref name="rhino">[http://monkees.rhino.com/read/mike.lasso ''The Monkees: Mike Nesmith''] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20061018045555/http://monkees.rhino.com/read/mike.lasso |date=October 18, 2006}} biography from Rhino Records</ref> but enlisted in the [[U.S. Air Force]] in 1960 before graduating. He completed basic training at [[Lackland Air Force Base]] in [[San Antonio]], was trained as an aircraft mechanic at [[Sheppard Air Force Base]] in [[Wichita Falls]], Texas, and was permanently stationed at [[Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base]] near [[Burns Flat, Oklahoma]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Triplett |first=Gene |date=March 3, 1985 |title=Nesmith: No Monkeeing Around |work=[[The Oklahoman]] |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1985/03/03/nesmith-no-monkeeing-around/62772172007/ |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=":7" /> He obtained a [[General Educational Development|GED]] certificate and was honorably discharged in 1962.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=Gaita|first=Paul|title=Michael Nesmith – Biography|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/140110%7C111748/Michael-Nesmith/#biography|access-date=2021-12-16|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref>