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Oops: McCain's backdrop for speech was Valley middle school for kids, not vets

Published on Saturday, September 06, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer

NORTH HOLLYWOOD - What's in a name?

Students at Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood were finding out firsthand Friday what Shakespeare might have meant.

Their school became the forefront of national political attention after a blowup photo of the front of the mansion-like building was mistakenly used as a backdrop for GOP presidential nominee John McCain's nationally televised acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night.

Convention planners apparently looking for a photo of Walter Reed Army Medical Center found a picture of the exterior of the school instead.

By late Friday morning, the school's phone system had become so overloaded with calls that Principal Donna Tobin posted an official response on the school's Web site rather than field all the calls personally   Read Full Article...

 
 

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