Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong has been just about everywhere. But CBS Telecaster Edward R. Murrow discovered one place he had missed: the land of his ancestors, Central Africa. The entertainment possibilities were just too colorful to miss, so CBS shelled out some $25,000 to send Armstrong, his five-man All-Stars and a camera crew to the city of Accra, the Gold Coast, for a three-day junket. The results were as good as expected. "After all," explained Louis, "my descendants came from here."
From the minute he walked down the plane steps, the Gold Coast gleamed...
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