An inventor and entrepreneur, Robert Gilmore "R.G." LeTourneau was responsible for the invention and development of numerous earthmoving machines and manufacturing processes. The Longview, Texas, resident was also a devout Christian. In 1952, he sent a landing ship equipped with machinery and goods to Liberia's Baffu Bay, with the goals of land and agricultural development as well as colonization and evangelism. LeTourneau's son-in-law, Gus Dick, led the project. This footage captures the construction of "Tournata," the coastal village that developed as a result of the group's industrial and missionary work.
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Contributed to the Texas Film Commission's Texas Archive of the Moving Image program by LeTourneau University - L.G. LeTourneau Museum.
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