And on July 31, 1951, by a vote of 4-0 — with one abstention — the board selected the site after eliminating six other finalists, which did not completely meet the city's outlined needs for ...

Across the country people had awoken the previous day -- Wednesday, April 11, 1951 -- to be greeted with the news that in the wee hours of the morning, Truman had fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur ...