John Wayne's Relative?

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    When I visited Mount Rushmore in 1998, to visit and view "The Four Presidents", I saw a highly enlarged photo of one of the many men who worked on that magnificent project. If I hadn't known better, I would have sworn that this particular man was John Wayne(Marion Morrison) himself. There is a memorial-cum-honour wall at this place, naming all of the people who worked on this project; one of them being Ronald Morrison. Does anyone know if in fact, this "Ronald" was in fact, John Wayne's brother called Robert; or if John Wayne had a cousin by the name of Ronald Morrison?
    Thank you.

    Pete,


    Welcome to the board. This is a great place to meet others who are John Wayne enthusiast.


    To answer your question, I checked into the books I have about John Wayne bio's, and there is nothing in any of the books that talk about a relative involved at Mt. Rushmore. Duke's brother would have been too young to be a part of it. There are lots of Morrison's in this country.


    Unless there is a distant relative, that the bio hasn't picked up, I don't think so. This project would have been done, the early part of the 20th century.


    If I remember my history, this project had a lot of financial challenges, and almost didn't happen, but I haven't researched this part before responding to your thread. I'll look into the Mt. Rushmore info, and get back to you about this end of the Morrison connection. But I am almost 100% sure there is no relation.


    Good question. I'll confirm this later if someone doesn't beat me to it.


    Cheers,
    Hondo B)



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