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Jayne Mansfield

Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield, in North Carolina for a nightclub engagement in Greensboro, appeared in the pace car for the race at Orange Speedway near Hillsborough on March 10, 1963, one of the track's highlights for local residents.

Source: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register nomination, Occoneechee Speedway (OR1542, 2002)

1933–1967 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Jayne Mansfield, 1957
Jayne Mansfield, 1957

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  1. Jayne Mansfield rides in the pace car at Orange Speedway Film star Jayne Mansfield, in North Carolina for a nightclub date in Greensboro, rode in the pace car to start the 150-mile race at Orange Speedway. Orange County sheriff's deputies Will Gilmore and Avery Maddry acted as her bodyguards, and she watched from the judges' stand, signing autographs. Place: Orange Speedway (Occoneechee Speedway), Hillsborough · Also named: Will Gilmore, Avery MaddrySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): Riding shotgun for Jayne, March 14, 1963, p. 1

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Jock Lauterer photographic collection, circa 1964-1968.

Lauterer, Jock · 1964

Photographs made by Jock Lauterer in and around Chapel Hill from about 1964 to 1968, some 3,522 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Speaker Ban Law, Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina, Tar Heel basketball and football, the Jubilee festival, the Old Well, and visitors including Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Bob Hope and Jayne Mansfield.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mansfield, Jayne, 1933-1967.

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Picture: Jayne Mansfield, 1957. Public domain. Photograph by Likely 20th Century Fox; www.doctormacro.com,%20Jayne/Annex/Annex%20-%20Mansfield,%20Jayne%20(Kiss%20Them%20for%20Me)_01.jpg; via Wikimedia Commons

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