History in The Making

Watch as a caravan of circus animals make a wild splash in South Florida back in 1979
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Watch as a caravan of circus animals make a wild splash in South Florida back in 1979

NBC6’s History in the Making looks back at the events that made headlines in South Florida from the 1979 arrival of the Ringling Brothers elephants to the 1980 arrival of migrants after the Mariel boatlift.

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