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Photograph caption dated May 19, 1954 reads, "Vice President Richard Nixon and Congressman Joe Holt greet Kum Sok No in Washington. Lieut. No is the North Korean pilot who turned the Russian built MIG over to the United States. He was accompanied on his visit to Washington by Major James Kim who lived with the Holt family in Hollywood as a young boy."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Nixon, Richard M.--(Richard Milhous),--1913-1994 No, Kum-Sok Holt, Joseph F.,--1924-1997 Air pilots, Military--Korea (North) Vice-Presidents--United States Legislators--United States Politicians--United States Handshaking--Washington (D.C.) Men--Washington (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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