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Perry Mason's Colored Air Circus really did exist

Posted by Norman Weiss
Friday 8/14/20 at 4:10AM EDT
  • LAist

    The third episode of the HBO period drama reboot featured a billboard for the "Colored Air Circus." In fact, Los Angeles was host to the first-ever airshow in the world piloted entirely by Black aviators on Dec. 6, 1931.

    TOPICS: Perry Mason (2020), HBO


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