MEXICAN MAN & AMERICAN WIFE WALK FROM WASHINGTON D.C. TO MEXICO CITY
Mexico City (JFK+50) On September 9, 1924, The Chicago Daily-News reports the arrival here in Mexico City of Valetin Ovando, a Mexican, and his American wife "after having walked...from Washington, D.C."
The couple left Washington on March 15 and received thousands of good-will messages along the way to Mexico City.
The Daily-News says that the couple's intent in making the walk was "to show the American people that genuine peace existed throughout Mexico."
SOURCE
"Man and Wife Walk From D.C. To Mexico," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., September 9, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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Photo by Jorge Mendoza
2008
