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Boy Scouts from 1953 return to site of epic Jamboree: 'I’ve done nothing like it before or since'

Sixty-five years ago this week, some 50,000 Boy Scouts from all of the then-48 states, plus the Alaska and Hawaii territories and 26 other countries, erected a tent city for a national Jamboree on what was once a swath of the expansive Irvine Ranch in Newport Beach.

On Thursday, about 20 came back.


Source: Los Angeles Times

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