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Will Rogers death remembered fifty years on
Fifty years after Will Rogers and Wiley Post died in an Arctic Ocean crash, Cedar Rapids mourned the humorist with lights darkened nationwide. Verne Marshall recalled Rogers' blunt clarity, simple wit, and keen eye for hypocrisy, while Rogers’s Cedar Rapids appearances—1909 and 1928—highlighted his rise from local vaudeville to national figure and $2,000 Shrine Temple show.
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