Major airports near Fort Leavenworth: The nearest major airport is Kansas City International Airport (MCI / KMCI). This airport has international and domestic flights from Kansas City, Missouri and is 22 miles from the center of Fort Leavenworth.nother major airport is Forbes Field (FOE / KFOE), which has domestic flights from Topeka, Kansas and is 71 miles from Fort Leavenworth.
Subscribe to 30sJazz.com. Advertisement. This scene from the 1937 film Hollywood Hotel the Benny Goodman Orchestra perform a swingin' number with Benny Goodman (clarinet), Harry James (trumpet), and Gene Krupa (drums). *Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) was written by Louis Prima in 1936.
Along with Howard's two brothers Sam and Rusty, they became known as The Happy Goodman Family, helping pave the way for Southern gospel music during the 1960s. With the formation of Word Records in the early 1960s, Vestal and The Happy Goodman Family were the flagship artists signed to the company. In 1969, she won the first ever Female Vocalist of the Year Dove Award.