Is it time to rename John Wayne Airport?
Looking up at the appropriately named “Saddleback Mountain,” it’s easy to imagine John Wayne — the biggest cowboy movie star ever — stradling the twin peaks and riding off into the heavens.
But of course Duke, as he was called, wasn’t a real cowboy any more than he was, in a movie by the same name, a Green Beret.
Wayne, however, was, by his own admission, a “white supremacist.”
The statue of John Wayne at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana on Wednesda
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