SEC. DANIELS PRESENTS CAPITOL EXHIBITS COMMEMORATING WWII SERVICE
Thursday, Sep 20, 2007
For Immediate Release
September 20, 2007
Contact: Natasha Naragon
(501) 683-1441
(LITTLE ROCK, ARK.) - Secretary of State Charlie Daniels today presented two related exhibits on display at the State Capitol this fall that commemorate America’s and Arkansas’s participation in the Second World War. Timed to coincide with the debut of Ken Burn’s new PBS documentary, The War, the exhibits feature interpretive panels summarizing the progress of the war, historic images, and evocative artifacts.
In the first floor exhibit cases, The War–And Arkansas blends narrative panels, artifacts from the collections of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, and testimony from Arkansas World War II veterans, collected as part of “In Their Words,” an Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) oral history project.
In the Lower Level elevator foyer, The War We Saw features reproductions of seldom-seen press photographs from the war. These images were captured by military and civilian photographers, vetted by censors and made available to newspapers and magazines. These images helped frame Americans’ perception of the conflict and the human dramas that unfolded on far-flung battlefields.
Images in The War We Saw are drawn from the MacArthur Museum of Military History’s Allison Collection, an archive of over 4,200 vintage prints of wartime press service and publicity photos, most bearing their original attached captions. The original captions are reproduced in this exhibit, so viewers can read what the military censors approved for public consumption.
The exhibits, which are free and open to the public, will be on display through November from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays and from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on weekends and holidays.
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Contact: Natasha Naragon
Phone: (501) 683-1441
Email: natasha.naragon@sos.arkansas.gov
Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels
256 State Capitol Building
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
Phone: (501) 682-1010
Website: www.sos.ar.gov
Email: arsos@sos.ar.gov
