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Will Rogers & Wiley Post death in 1935...
Will Rogers & Wiley Post death in 1935...
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August 18, 1935
THE TIMES PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 18, 1935
* Will Rogers
* Wiley Post
* Airplane crash - deaths
This 30+ page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "FLIER LANDS AT FAIRBANKS WITH BODIES OF ROGERS, POST" with subheads and photos of the men involved in the recovery of the doomed fliers.
Other news of the day throughout. Light browning with minor margin wear, otherwise in good condition.
source: wikipedia: An avid booster of aviation, Rogers undertook a flight around the world with a fellow Oklahoman, world-renowned aviator Wiley Post, in the summer of 1935.[1] Post's plane, an experimental and nose-heavy hybrid of Lockheed Explorer and Orion, crashed south of Barrow, Alaska, on August 15, 1935 when its engine failed on takeoff, killing both men.
It may be difficult, with the passage of time, to fully comprehend the extraordinary place Rogers held in the minds and hearts of the American people at the time of his death. The outpouring of national grief over Rogers's passing is generally regarded to be the greatest such show of national mourning since the death of Lincoln some seventy years earlier.[11]. He was the nation's most widely read newspaper columnist, in the form of his daily "Will Rogers Says" telegrams and in his weekly column; his Sunday night half-hour radio show was the nation's most-listened-to weekly broadcast; and he had been the nation's #2 movie box office draw in 1933 (behind Marie Dressler) and #1 in 1934, ranking 2nd at the time of his death in 1935 only to Shirley Temple.
Category: The 20th Century
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