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Freeman Field hosts Kansas Aviation Expo

The Russell Freeman field. Lt. Russell Freeman, a former ACI correctional officer, spent much of his time with his beloved family, friends and teams at the softball fields at Winslow Park. That’s why his family says they can’t think of a better way to memorialize his legacy- by naming something after him; that he loved so much. On Friday, hundreds from the community gathered together to help celebrate the new name of the softball field. Warwick’s Mayor Frank Picozzi also was there to thr...

March 12, 2021 Col. Benjamin O. Davis (left), commanding officer of the 332nd Fighter Group, and Edward C. Gleed, group operations officer, stand in front of a plane in Ramitelli, Italy, in March 1945. Toni Frissell, Library of Congress // No Known Restrictions on Publication The first Black pilots to serve in the United States military—along with the navigators, mechanics, instructors, and other personnel who supported them—are today remembered as the Tuskegee Airmen. Established in 1941, ...

>> reporter: to the surprise of white pilots, the tuskegee airmen go on to play a vital role in the u.s. victory in world war ii. >> yesterday, i fulfilled one of my ambitions as a combat pilot. i got one airplane. >> reporter: they had flown over 15,000 sorties and earned one legion of merit, one silver star, 14 bronze stars, 96 distinguished flying crosses and many purple hearts. but the returning tuskegee airmen were in for disappointment. >> segregation was still a part of the army leadershi...

A look back at 2020 in Jackson County Few words — some perhaps not printable — better describe 2020 than “unprecedented.” From the day coronavirus first made its appearance on the front page of The Tribune on Feb. 20, you’d be hard-pressed to find any story that didn’t contain COVID-19, pandemic or coronavirus on the front page or any inside page for that matter. In fact, there have been more than 1,000 news items containing the word coronavirus and/or COVID-19 this year. 1 of 7 Pol...

half a century of writing in 14 books in print and no one had ever written a biography. i wanted to find out who was kurt vonnegut the author of these books that suddenly became so popular, so suddenly. you know, he was out of print, as i say in the prologue in the mid-60s. by 1970 he had a body of work that had been resuscitated from the ash heap of literature. god bless you missed -- mr. rosewater, sirens of titan, mother night, cats cradle, works before he had been just somebody who...

georgia. winds as strong as 200 miles per hour ripped through towns. at least 37 people are dead. as many as 17 million people were impacted by the storms. scores of injured people waking up in hospitals this morning. their homes and the homes of their neighbors gone. people now picking through the rubble to find anything they can salvage. president obama is offering federal assistance in the areas battered by the storms. in the little town of west liberty, kentucky, the town felt the ...

franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. wait a second. i would like to welcome you to the eighth annual roosevelt reading festival. i would like to welcome c-spans booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the roosevelt library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this years group of others refle...

[laughter] she didnt want to make her debut, she was afraid she wouldnt be popular. her mother had been one of the great beauties of new york society, and apparently when eleanor was a little girl, her mother said something like, well, you better be good because you certainly arent beautiful. and eleanor did not have good memories of her mother, the love she got as a child came from her father. but then, of course, he was a desolate individual who die inside a drunken stupor, a fire in...

>> a fox urgent a small plane crashes into a home in central virginia. tim what happened? >> first i want to tell you he have scary pics to go with this. it happened in central virginia, luis is a. a 1981 cessna twin engine crashed into a home on jefferson highway. it caused a fire. incredible tape. the pilot, according to the virginia state police, died. but there was a person home but they were able to escape. the flames are due to the fact the plane just filled up with fuel at the freeman fie...