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[Dyess Air Force Base - B-52 Day]

Description: Copy slide of a photograph of a crowd on the apron during B-52 Day at Dyess Air Force Base. This captures the christening ceremony for the first Boeing B-52 named “Wings for Peace” to be stationed at Dyess AFB, Texas. Mrs. Idanell Connally, wife of Governor John Connally christened the aircraft in their first out-of-Austin public engagement following the Governor being shot when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. A bucket lift with a camera crew rises up over the aircraft to capture … more
Date: February 15, 1964
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