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ARKANSAS MUSEUM WILL HONOR MACARTHUR, DECLARED VIRGINIAN.(FRONT)
The Virginian Pilot
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March 28, 1999|
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Byline: KELLY P. KISSEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. -- Along a shaded driveway in one of the city's oldest and quietest neighborhoods stands the Little Rock Arsenal, birthplace of one of the state's most famous sons.
Not that you'd know it from Douglas MacArthur. The celebrated general and hero of the Korean War always made a point of saying he was, like his brothers, a Virginian.
Little Rock, too, has tended to pay scant attention to this aspect of its heritage. It was, after all, an accident. MacArthur's mother planned to give birth in ...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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Today in History, October 8
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia)
; ...dies from cancer at the peak of her career, aged 41. 1954 - Communist Vietnamese forces occupy Hanoi. 1961 - Prince Souvanna Phouma is chosen premier of new provisional coalition government in Laos. 1967 - Death of Clement Attlee, Britain...
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
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