His personal belongings tell a lot about the big man.
The wooden crate is 8-by-8-by-8 feet.
Inside the oversized box are bag after bag of unopened fan mail, all addressed to the same man.
Some have real addresses; others just say “John Wayne, Hollywood, California,” but all 300,000 letters were delivered in those last days in 1979 as one of America’s icons was dying of cancer.
The letters came from every state and many foreign countries. John Wayne, who made a point of always answ
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