The Gift of Christmas – Salvation Army

In late 1983, newspaper articles like the one below (The Indiana Gazette, Indiana, PA, November 15, 1983) began to appear: About a month later, this appeared in the Altoona News, Altoona, PA (December 17, 1983): One of the public service broadcasts on which Stewart appeared that year was the annual Salvation Army “Army of Stars”…

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Salvation Army Radio Spots

We reported in Jimmy Stewart on the Air that Stewart was chairman of the 1983 Salvation Army Christmas Campaign. The announcement of his appointment to this position was reported in many newspapers, including the Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, WA (November 26, 1983) and the Steinbach Carillon, Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada (December 14, 1983). According to both of…

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