God Bless America and John Wayne

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In a career that spanned almost five decades, John Wayne played countless Western heroes, from the Ringo Kid and Ethan Edward to Davy Crockett and Rooster Cogburn. But more than simply an actor, Wayne’s persona, both onscreen and off, came to embody the American West, at home and abroad. Not surprisingly, when Nikita Khrushchev, the Premier of the Soviet Union and a harsh critic of the United States, visited the country in 1959 at the invitation of President Dwight D Eisenhower, he demanded to see two American cultural institutions: Disneyland and John Wayne.

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Farmington Museum
3041 E Main Street
Farmington, NM
87402

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