HISTORY MINUTE

“Within my lifetime, we have gone from cranking telephones to interplanetary communications,” John Wesley Snyder marveled at his own life. His own life was a marvel, moving from delivering the Jonesboro Evening Sun as a youngster to eventually serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman.

Snyder was born in Jonesboro in 1895. His father was a pharmacist and inventor and active in the community. He encouraged his son from a young age to seek an education and expand his imagination. In a 1967 interview, he recalled that his visit to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, changed his life. He was amazed by the inventions and displays all around him.

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