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It also includes never-published or displayed photos taken by a military photographer, wartime films from his travels, Hollywood Victory Caravan photos and scrapbooks, an interactive display and an original 10-minute documentary. The museum also is hosting free showings of classic movies Bob Hope made from 1939 to 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All but two of Hope\u2019s radio shows during World War II were aired from military bases and camps, throughout the United States and in both the European and South Pacific theaters of war, according to the Bob &amp; Dolores Hope Foundation\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1631\" height=\"2000\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636058150407931901-ap-641224010jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636058150407931901-ap-641224010jpg.jpg 1631w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636058150407931901-ap-641224010jpg.jpg?resize=245,300 245w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636058150407931901-ap-641224010jpg.jpg?resize=768,942 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636058150407931901-ap-641224010jpg.jpg?resize=835,1024 835w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636058150407931901-ap-641224010jpg.jpg?resize=1253,1536 1253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1631px) 100vw, 1631px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bob Hope shakes hands with American servicemen after entertaining them on Christmas Eve in 1964 at Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon.  (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope\u2019s daughter, Linda Hope, will speak at a Thursday evening kickoff reception for the exhibit, which runs from Friday through Feb. 10. She\u2019s chair\/CEO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bobhope.org\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Bob &amp; Dolores Hope Foundation<\/a>, which gave the museum $3 million in 2016 to integrate Hope\u2019s story throughout its campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am so pleased that the public is getting a chance to understand the role my dad played in keeping up morale both overseas and here at home during those difficult times,\u201d she said in the museum\u2019s news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Golf Hall of Fame &amp; Museum is lending some of the items, the museum said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibit is titled \u201cSo Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope.\u201d The title is taken from Hope\u2019s 1990 memoir, \u201cDon\u2019t Shoot, It\u2019s Only Me.\u201d Describing his first military performance, at March Field, California, in May 1941, he wrote, \u201cWe had no idea we were going to discover an audience so ready for laughter, it would make what we did for a living seem like stealing money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National World War II Museum is about to open a new exhibit about comedian Bob Hope and his performances for American troops serving around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":80236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":72,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,72,12,25,13,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1351],"class_list":["post-40232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-military-culture","category-news","category-newsletters","category-off-duty","category-veterans"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"O3TF3JINQVDWDNOTO4QAEJ3ZAI","arc_canonical_url":"\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2018\/05\/20\/world-war-ii-museums-bob-hope-exhibit-opens-friday\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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