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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/mtAqE.St.138.jpeg|525George Marett of Charlotte walks the desert site near Isfahan, Iran, where Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction began building a helicopter factory for the Shah of Iran before employees had to be rescued on Jan. 3, 1979. Marett was the project's managing director.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/TWQso.St.138.jpeg|422Jim Walker, now of Asheville, was project manager of a helicopter factory that Charlotte-based J.A. Jones began to build near Isfahan, Iran, before employees had to be rescued on Jan. 3, 1979 -- as the Shah's government unraveled.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/56/15RLNW.St.138.jpeg|525Identification cards, photos and Iranian stamps of Jim, Carolyn and Vincent Walker. Jim Walker was project manager for Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction. The company was building a helicopter factory and school when its employees had to rescued on Jan. 3, 1979 as the Shah's government came apart.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/QeCjE.St.138.jpeg|443Iranian driver's license for Carolyn Walker. She's the wife of Jim Walker, who was project manager for a helicopter factory that Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction was building near Isfahan, Iran, before employees had to be rescued on Jan. 3, 1979.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/16JOAO.St.138.jpeg|525Telex the pilot of a DC-10 sent to his bosses in California and J.A. Jones Construction in Charlotte after taking off on Jan. 3, 1979, with 273 Americans on board. They were rescued as the Shah's government unraveled in revolutionary Iran.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/AZeft.St.138.jpeg|417Logo of the company that Charlotte-bssed J.A. Jones Construction created with two Iranian construction companies to build a helicopter factor and school for the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s. It was pasted to a working permit for George Marett of Charlotte, the project's managing director.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/2Yq5k.St.138.jpeg|525Story in The Charlotte Observer about the evacuation of 102 J.A. Jones Construction employee and family from Iran on Jan. 3, 1979. They were building a helicopter factory and school near Isfahan, Iran, for the Shah of Iran as the country unraveled into revolution.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/13PARI.St.138.jpeg|525Danny Sullivan, the J.A. Jones Construction purchasing director who directed the evacuation of 102 employees and family from Iran on Jan. 3, 1979. The company was building a helicopter factory near Isfahan, Iran, when the country unraveled into revolution.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/KYB0w.St.138.jpeg|525George Marett of Charlotte with an Iranian rug dealer. Marett was managing director for a helicopter factory that J.A. Jones Construction was building near Isfahan, Iran, in the late 1970s.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/u7tqM.St.138.jpeg|426George Marett of Charlotte (r) and an Iranian associate (l) take Johnie Jones of Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction on a job site tour in the desert near Isfahan, Iran. The company was building a helicopter factory for the Shah of Iran when the country fell into a revolution in the late 1970s.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/9b03h.St.138.jpeg|366Livings quarters at the job site near Isfahan, Iran, where Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction was building a helicopter factory for the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s. The company had to leave the job unfinished because of a revolution that swept the country.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/2Bzww.St.138.jpeg|436Bobby and Barbara Bunn of Charlotte. Bobby was finance director for a J.A. Jones Construction project to build a helicopter factory near Isfahan, Iran in the late 1970s. Barbara worked in the office as data control supervisor. They were married three weeks before they left for Iran.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/56/NsRFy.St.138.jpeg|380The village of Shahin Shahr near the job site where Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction was building a helicopter factory iand school n the late 1970s.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/56/1Ouac.St.138.jpeg|525Five Carolinians show the wares took out of Iran when they were evacuated on Jan. 3, 1979. Sitting l-r, Barbara Bunn and Carolyn Walker; standing l-r, George Marett, Bobby Bunn and Jim Walker. The five were part of a project by Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction to build a helicopter factory and school in the late 1970s when they had to be rescued as the country fell into revolution. (T.Ortega Gaines - ogaines@charlotteobserver.com)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/57/pqWH0.St.138.jpeg|414Carolyn Walker holds an assortment of Iranian coins and a casino chip from the days her family was in Iran in the late 1970s. Her husband, Jim, was project manager for Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction to build a helicopter factory and school near Isfahan, Iran.,for the Shah of Iran. (T.Ortega Gaines - ogaines@charlotteobserver.com)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/22/20/56/i3jxe.St.138.jpeg|414Bronze Iranian elks Jim and Carolyn Walker brought from Iran when they had to be evacuated Jan. 3, 1979. Jim was project manager for Charlotte-based J.A. Jones Construction that was building a helicopter factory and school near Isfahan for the Shah of Iran.(T.Ortega Gaines - ogaines@charlotteobserver.com)
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