Bob Hope
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For more than fifty years, perennial entertainer Bob Hope crisscrossed the globe performing comedy for deployed military troops, in partnership with the United Service Organizations. His first USO show was at March Field in Riverside, California in 1941, and his final tour was in 1990 in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. Among the National Comedy Center’s collection of more than 10,000 pages of career-spanning original Bob Hope jokes are his in-progress notes for a 1978 tribute to the USO in Washington, D.C.
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