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Your Tour Guide to America

Location:

Harlan, IA

Description:

Your Tour Guide to America

Language:

English

Contact:

McCrea Communications; 5650 Berlin Rd.; Maysville, MO 64469-8255 1-888-622-7321


Episodes

A Look Back at the Kennedy Assassination

9/22/2023
In the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, we may forget that a police officer lost his life in the...

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A Personal Connection to Jack Ruby

9/21/2023
In November of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. Just two days later, Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Deputy Eugene Boone soon found the assassination...

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Searching the Texas School Book Depository

9/20/2023
In the early afternoon of November 22nd, 1963, Deputy Eugene Boone was searching the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository shortly after President...

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Watching the Presidential Motorcade

9/19/2023
Deputy Eugene Boone was watching President Kennedy’s motorcade pass Main Street on November 22, 1963. But just moments after the president’s car traveled down the...

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The Famous Willard Hotel Bar

9/18/2023
The round bar at the Willard Hotel has been the places where generations of politicians, celebrities and power brokers have forged deals, shared conversations or...

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The Other House for the President

9/15/2023
The President, of course, lives in the White House. But over the decades, when a president or president-elect has needed another place to stay the...

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Opening & Closing the Old Faithful Inn

9/14/2023
Depending on where live in the country, you sometimes have to ready your home for the cold winter months. Now image getting a 300-plus room...

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Yellowstone by Stagecoach

9/13/2023
Today you can take a highway loop to the sites at Yellowstone National Park. In the days before cars, that trip was made in a...

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An Inn by the Geysers

9/12/2023
In the latter half of the 1800s, explorers and early visitors to what is today Yellowstone National Park were amazed by the area’s geysers –...

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The Van Doren Brothers

9/11/2023
The Van Doren brothers hailed from Vermilion County, Illinois. Their father saw great potential in his sons and even made a move to get them...

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Mr. Speaker

9/8/2023
The Speaker of the House is an important position in government and this man is often regarded as the man who dominated that role and...

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Joe Cannon’s Early Lessons

9/7/2023
What happens in a kid’s life can have an impact on what they do later in life. That was the case for Joe Cannon and...

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A Name Within a Name

9/6/2023
A name may say a lot about a person. In this case, there was a man’s name within a man’s name. It was his parents...

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The Landmark Golf Course

9/5/2023
You won’t find a big sign for this place and you’ll travel down plenty of gravel roads to reach it – but many people do. ...

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Traveling Gravel Roads to Golf

9/4/2023
“Landmand” is the Danish word for farmer and in northeast Nebraska you’ll find a place that recently opened with that name. It’s a nod to...

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A Piece of Ground that Stands Out

9/1/2023
Bryce Andersen’s family had a piece of ground that stood out, but for the wrong reasons. It was just too hilly to farm, and they...

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Stephen Douglas Birthplace

8/31/2023
Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War…but it was this man who defeated him for the senate just two years prior. We’ll go...

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An Aviation Pioneer

8/30/2023
Carl Ben Eielson hailed from Hatton, North Dakota. He was a pioneer in aviation and helped open the vast Alaskan territory to air travel. It...

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Bringing the First Airplane to Alaska

8/29/2023
In the 1920 a guy named Carl brought the first airplane to Fairbanks, Alaska. What took place from there would put him in the record...

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Carl Ben Eielson

8/28/2023
If you live in the states of North Dakota or Alaska, you quite likely have heard of Carl Ben Eielson. His aviation firsts in the...

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