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12. The San Francisco General Assembly Observed A Minute's Silence To Commemorate Mrs Landingham's Death

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So upset by Mrs Landingham's death following a car crash on the show was a San Francisco assemblyman that he he adjourned a session of the California Congress in 2001 in order to commemorate her passing.

Assemblyman Kevin Shelley called Mrs Landingham "a great American whose contributions to the nation were too numerous to count" - and held a minute's silence for her in the California Congress.

Bizarre, to say the least...

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