[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3472]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Parade ground was empty under the cloudy, but sometimes sunny sky, as the military band broke into the "Cassion Song" made famous by the artillery and later stolen as the whole army's own. Smatterings of applause came from guests on the reviewing stand, but the man in front of that stand was thinking of his own "dusty trail" that the music tells of. It was a "dusty trail" that began in 1904 in East Hampton, N. Y., and moved in 1922 to West Point. It officially ends Tuesday at Fort Sill......All the pomp and ceremony that Fort Sill could muster was put on parade for the man who had command of both the U. S. Army Artillery and Missile School and U. S. Army Artillery and Missile Center since April, 1961......Gen. Hugh P. Harris, commanding general of the continental Army Command, presented a Distinguished Service Medal to griffing for "eminently meritorious service." Lt. Gen. Carl H. Jark, 4th U. S. Army Commander, gave Griffing his official retirement papers, effective Tuesday. When the order "pass in review" was given it set into motion a mile of marching troops, 300 vehicles and weapons, planes and helicopters."

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Source context

Downloaded visible Gateway metadata export for this military-band research row. Source: Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 31, 1964 Collection code: OKPCP. Institution code: OKHS. Place/context: United States - Oklahoma - Oklahoma County - Oklahoma City Creation data: 1964-03-30 Creator: Albright, Bob Physical description: 1 photograph Provided by: Oklahoma Historical Society or visible Gateway partner; see item page. Identifier: 2012.201.OVZ001.3472 Subjects: Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism; Griffing, L. S. Maj. Gen.-U.S Army Retired; Daily Oklahoman photographs; GRIFFING, L. S. MAJ. GEN. / U.S ARMY RETIRED. Search window: exact military-band-plus-Oklahoma advanced search.

Oklahoma connection

The visible record was selected from the exact military-band-plus-Oklahoma result set because it establishes a band, instrumentalist, instrumental ensemble, orchestra, or related Oklahoma music context. No identity merge or canonical promotion is asserted.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

military band / band and instrumental music context

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Sources

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