Showing posts with label 1950. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1950. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2015

Truman's Plane comes to Knoxville

President Obama visited Knoxville today.  Jack Neely has a blog post about the various presidents that visited, or didn't visit, Knoxville.

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.

Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) - April 28, 1950

And this is the plane from which he smartly stepped.

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.

Greensboro Daily News - April 24, 1955

newspaper images from GenealogyBank.com