McFaddin-Ward House lecture to show National WWII Museum
News Staff
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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The McFaddin-Ward House will present “WWII Lessons and Legacies: The National WWII Museum’s Arsenal of Democracy Exhibit and Manufacturing Victory for the Allies,” a free public lecture by Dr. Michael Bell at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at in the museum’s Visitor Center Lecture Hall (located at 1906 Calder Avenue in Beaumont). executive director of the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Dr. Bell, will highlight impactful artifacts and insights from one of the museum’s key galleries, detailing how allied victory was an epic undertaking fueled by stateside industry, ingenuity, and the labor of millions of patriotic Americans and showcasing this often-overlooked aspect of America’s role in winning the war.