Audio Slideshow: Oldest Former Pullman Porter Looks Back (LA Times)

Lee Wesley Gibson, 100, started working for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1936 at a salary of 23 cents an hour. The oldest surviving former Pullman porter recollects life on the rails and at home.

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