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'''George Washington Shannon''' (February 20, 1914 – April 25, 1998)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Shannon&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=53533197&df=all&|title=George Washington Shannon|author=John Andrew Prime|publisher=Findagrave.com|date=June 10, 2010|accessdate=October 9, 2019}}</ref> was a [[conservative]] [[journalist]] from, principally, [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]].
'''George Washington Shannon''' (February 20, 1914 – April 25, 1998)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Shannon&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=53533197&df=all&|title=George Washington Shannon|author=John Andrew Prime|publisher=Findagrave.com|date=June 10, 2010|accessdate=October 9, 2019}}</ref> was a [[conservative]] [[journalist]] from, principally, [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]].
==Background==
==Background==
Shannon was born in El Dorado in Union County in southern [[Arkansas]]. His father, Henry Heywood Shannon, Sr. (1882-1928), died when George was fourteen and is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His mother, the former Carrie Lee Olson (1886-1963), died thirty-five years after her husband's passing and two days before the 1963 [[assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]]. She is interred in El Dorado at Bethel Methodist Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Shannon&GSfn=Carrie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=4&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=29554063&df=all&|title=Carrie Lee Olson Shannon|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 9, 2019}}</ref>
Shannon was born in El Dorado in Union County in southern [[Arkansas]]. His father, Henry Heywood Shannon, Sr. (1882-1928), died when George was fourteen and is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His mother, the former Carrie Lee Olson (1886-1963), died thirty-five years after her husband's passing and two days before the 1963 [[assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]]. She is interred in El Dorado at Bethel Methodist Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Shannon&GSfn=Carrie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=4&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=29554063&df=all&|title=Carrie Lee Olson Shannon|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 9, 2019}}</ref>