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Information on the American Freedom Train [Notice to Press]
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Information on the American Freedom Train [Notice to Press]
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Digitized from Box 5 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
December 13, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The American Freedom Train is a non-profit, non-commercial
Bicentennial project, sponsored by the five corporations,
each of which will contribute one million dollars. The firms
are Atlantic Richfield Company, General Motors Corporation,
Kraft Foods Division of Kraftco, Pepsico, Inc., and Prudential
Insurance Company of America, Inc.
Revenues derived from ticket sales and donations also will be
used to operate the train.
The Freedom Train consists of a steam powered locomotive and
twenty-two cars which will travel to 76 cities throughout the United
States in 1975 and 1976, displaying some of the nation's most
treasured documents and artifacts.
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