Photo Slideshow of a Vietnam Tour of Duty
date: label: Date made
content: 1966 - 1967
name: label: photographer
content: Galanos, Louis G.
label: associated institution
content: United Service Organizations
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content: Galanos, Sergeant Louis G.
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content: Slideshow created by Vietnam veteran Sergeant Louis G. Galanos. The slideshow is on a CD-R format disc and includes images of Phyllis Diller during her performance with Bob Hope’s 1966 USO Christmas tour. Also included on the tour that year were bandleader Les Brown, singer/actress/dancer Joey Heatherson, singer Vic Damone, singer Anita Bryant, the Korean Kittens singing and dance group, baton twirler Diane Shelton, Miss World Reita Feria, and Bob Hope’s wife Dolores. The troupe toured around Vietnam, Thailand, Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippines entertaining troops. The subsequent television special aired in the United States on January 18, 1967. The NMAH collection also includes the costume Diller wore on this USO tour (Catalog Number 2003.0289.05).
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content: Diller was lifelong friends with Bob Hope, co-starring with him in 3 films and many TV specials. She had to change her usual material for this trip because her normal jokes about parenting and housekeeping were aimed at the people back home and not those fighting a war halfway across the world. Hope helped Diller create an entirely new routine where he played the straight man and allowed Diller to perform all of the jokes, which resulted in a bickering married couple routine. In 1978, the USO of Philadelphia, Inc. presented Diller with the USO Liberty Bell Award “for demonstrating concern for the welfare and morale of America’s armed forces.” The award is also at NMAH (Catalog Number 2003.0289.42).
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Humor
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content: Comedians
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content: Vietnam War
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content: Vietnam War
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Phyllis Diller
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content: Gift of Phyllis Diller
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2003.0289.32
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content: 2003.0289
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content: 2003.0289.32
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content: Photo Disc
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content: CD-Rs
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content: overall: 5 in x 5 5/8 in x 3/8 in; 12.7 cm x 14.2875 cm x .9525 cm