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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Victor Fischer, signer of Alaska State Constitution
Description: Send us Fan MailToday we celebrate 63 years of Alaskan Statehood by continuing our conversation with Victor Fischer, the last living signer of the our State’s Constitution. We discuss Alaska in the 1950s when he was both a territorial legislator and a delegate to the 1955 constitutional convention. We also talk about the Great 1964 Earthquake when Mr. Fischer was working in the administration of President Lyndon Johnson and was able to help direct substantial federal money to the reconstruction of the state. Joining the podcast today are others with memories from this period: retired Palmer Elementary school tea...