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- Murder on a Sunday Morning, a French film about the 2000 Brenton Butler murder case in Jacksonville, Florida, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2001?
- talks between President Gerald Ford and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1975 were held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida?
- the 1963 Hotel Roosevelt fire was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had witnessed since the Great Fire of 1901?
- Riverside Theater in Jacksonville was the first theater in Florida, and the third in the United States, equipped to show sound film?
- Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
- Atlantic Coast High School is Jacksonville, Florida's first public high school opened since 1990?
- Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida, was the first permanent French colony in North America?
- Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith founded a children's charity in his native Jacksonville which ran for two decades?
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