LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: September 11 at Barksdale Air Force Base
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President George W. Bush was brought here after learning of the attacks in New York and Washington, DC. We'll hear the story of that day from some of those who were there.
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: September 11 at Barksdale Air Force Base
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)President George W. Bush was brought here after learning of the attacks in New York and Washington, DC. We'll hear the story of that day from some of those who were there.
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: The History of the B-52 Bomber
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Barksdale AFB has been and still is home to one of the largest B-52 bomber fleets in the U.S. Military. We'll tour a B-52 with a pilot to talk about the history of the B-52 at Barksdale and the current B-52 operations there.
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: Shreveport's Yellow Fever Epidemic
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Historian Gary Joiner takes us to Oakland Cemetery to talk about the history of Shreveport and the 1873 Yellow Fever epidemic that killed almost 800 residents of city -- many of who are buried in a large mound at Oakland Cemetery.
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: Booker T. Washington's Shreveport speeches
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Booker T. Washington spoke to Shreveport residents about racial reconciliation in 1911 and a second time in 1915, when a crowd of over 10,000 people came to see him. Shreveport's population at the time was only about 25,000.
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport:Bonnie and Clyde's crime spree
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were known mostly for the bank robberies they committed during Depression era America. However, most of their robberies were of small stores and rural gas stations. On May 23, 1934 they were ambushed and killed by Louisiana law enforcement officers just outside of S...
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: Caddo Parish Coroner's record of the murder victim
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Caddo Parish Coroner's record of the murder victim of "The Butterfly Man" -- an infamous Shreveport murder case from 1934
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: The Louisiana Hayride
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The Hayride is integral in understanding Shreveport's history and a part of American music culture. The Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium during its heyday from 1948-1960. It helped to launch the careers of some...
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: Caddo Lake Oil Wells and the Clearing of the Red River Raft
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Army Corps of Engineers clearing of the Red River - in the 1800's so it could flow into the Mississippi. Caddo Lake oil wells -- the story of the oil industry's beginning uses of over water oil wells in the early 1900's.
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: Autographing History
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum is displaying over 50 original documents autographed by Founding Fathers and other early American statesman.
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- -: LCV Cities Tour - Shreveport: Civil War Era Medicine
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The Pioneer Heritage Center houses a display of surgical tools, medicines, and other items used by doctors and surgeons during the era of the Civil War.
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