USS Alabama Commission members watching the ship's arrival in Mobile Bay from Washington state.
Left to right: Al Fox, Senator John Tyson, Representative Robert Edington, possibly Jack Beasley Jr., and Charles McLafferty. In 1962, after learning that the World War II battleship was to be scrapped, the state legislature established a commission to study the possibility of acquiring the vessel....
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/142056 |