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Adair Countians will play big role in B-58 Marker Dedication today

Alan Reed, Chris Bennett, and several other Adair Countians will play big roles in the dedication of the Historical Marker commemorating an event which occurred at the the height of cold war tensions, on a December night in 1966, the residents of the community of McKinney, in Lincoln County, Kentucky, were startled. The sound of a violent explosion shook their homes. Many of the residents converged on the area to find a large crater in the earth andfires burning all along the hillside, and it was there the residents found the wreckage of an Air Force B-58 bomber. The marker dedication will take place at the crash site on Short Pike, McKinney, KY, on Saturday, June 23, 2012, at 11amET/10amCT, with Alan Reed as the emcee. Contact: 270-384-9828. Website: B58memorial.com - Chris Bennett



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