He couldn't confirm if President Harry Truman ever came to town. I did a bit of research and couldn't come up with any article one way or the other. But I did find that his plane, The Sacred Cow, touched down here.
At the end of April, 1950 the president of Chile, Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, was on a trip through the states.
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| Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) - April 28, 1950 |
And this is the plane from which he smartly stepped.
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| Douglas VC-54C "Sacred Cow" from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force |
A reader to Jack's column spoke of Truman coming to a local ramp festival in 1955. Here's that story.
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| Greensboro Daily News - April 24, 1955 |
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