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PBS fans are no doubt familiar with the name Rosalind P. Walter, one of public television’s principal benefactors. What they may not know is that in the 1950s, she and her family lived on Centre ...
Connie Palacioz is a 100-year-old volunteer at the B-29 Doc Hangar Museum in Wichita, Kansas. The centenarian is one of the original, and few remaining, Rosie the Riveters.
LOS ANGELES, CA — When Jennifer McMullen blows out the candles on her 100th birthday cake Saturday, behind those twinkling eyes, she may be thinking about her 99-year-old husband of 78 years ...
Some 80 years after their wartime efforts, real-life Rosie the Riveters are receiving the nation's highest civilian honor from Congress. John Yang has their story. Rosie the Riveter is known as a ...
Saturday marked a special return for a local woman with a long history. Fairport’s own “Rosie the Riveter” was recently honored at the at a Congressional Medal Commemoration Ceremony at the National ...
NEW ORLEANS – A hero's welcome greets 18 women at the National World War Two Museum. Staff and museum visitors line a plaza, waving American flags and cheering as the women arrive, adorned in ...