John Dunbrack Ewing, Sr. (February 13, 1892 – May 18, 1952), was a

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who served as

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and

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of both the ''

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'' and the ''Monroe News-Star-World'' (since the ''Monroe News-Star'') from 1931 until his death. He was also affiliated with

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station

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, the seat of

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in northwestern Louisiana. KWKH was founded in 1922 and named in 1925 for its founder, W. K. Henderson. In 1927, Ewing and former Shreveport mayor and businessman Andrew Querbes co-chaired a committee of prominent Shreveport citizens that began correspondence with the

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in Washington D. C. to sell Shreveport as the sight for a planned Army airfield that would serve as an expansion of the Third Attack Group, then located in Galveston, Texas. The group originally proposed land adjacent to Cross Lake but this location was deemed unsuitable by the War Department. Instead, approval was given for unincorporated land located in nearby Bossier Parish, which the City of Shreveport annexed through a municipal bond and donated to the federal government for construction of the facility, now known as

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References

*"John Dunbrack Ewing", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), p. 292 * Kathryn Hill, "Captain John D. Ewing: Civic Leader/Journalist," ''

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'', Vol. 32, No. 4 (Fall 2001), pp. 3–10 *"John D. Ewing Dies: Publisher in the South", ''New York Times'', May 18, 1952, p. 92 *Margaret Martin, "Colonel Robert Ewing: Louisiana Journalist and Politician", (Master's thesis, 1964, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge) *http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html
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