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Sunday Speaker Series presentation to highlight 50 years since San Juan plane crash

EDINBURG — On Oct. 23, 1970, Frank B. Alexander crashed a small plane into the Shrine of San Juan Roman Catholic Church, now site of the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle. This incident is the subject for the next Sunday Speaker Series Online presentation, a Museum of South Texas History program. Associate Education officer Joseph Fox will present “The Story of the 1970 San Juan Plane Crash” at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 on Facebook Live. The plane crash into the church in which an estimated 230 priests, nuns and schoolchildren escaped unharmed. In the end, there was ...

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