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4 unusual facts about Hands Across America


Gerald Welch

Jerry DJ'd the centerpoint of the nation during "Hands Across America" as well as played bass with his band The Silver Nickel Band during the event.

Ken Kragen

A year later, Kragen organized Hands Across America, a transcontinental human chain that involved 6 1/2 million people.

Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

Reagan's words caused a public outcry, to which he responded by admitting his mistake and personally participating in Hands Across America.

USA for Africa

USA for Africa also held a benefit event, Hands Across America, in which approximately seven million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States.



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