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Historical Moments

Left) On Christmas Day, December 25, 1969 Arthur Blessitt began the first day of his walk with the Cross in Hollywood, California. (Right) Arthur with Jim McPheeters in 1970 during the initial walk from California to Washington D.C.

Guinness Book of Records Award Blessitt for President (Left) Arthur Blessitt is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the World's Longest Walk. (Right) Arthur Blessitt for President of the United States of America, 1976.

(Left) Arthur Blessitt in Moscow in 1988. (Right) In 1970 Arthur fasted for 40 days in Washington D.C. in front of the Washington Monument at the corner of 15th and Constitution.

(Left) Arthur Blessitt with Mohmar Ghadaffi in Libya, 1988. (Right) Arthur and Denise with the Cross in 1991 climbing Mt. Fuji in Japan.

(Left) Arthur Blessitt with Yasser Arafat in Beirut, Lebanon in 1980. (Right) Arthur with his son Joshua and Yasser Arafat in Lebanon on July 4, 1982.

(Left) Arthur with the cross in Antarctica in 1988. (Right) Arthur praying with Homestead, Florida residents after Hurricane Andrew in August 1992.

(Left) Arthur and Reverend Billy Graham in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972. (Right) Arthur with Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy in December of 1979.

(Left) Arthur with Boutrous Boutrous Ghali, the former Secretary General to the United Nations. (Right) Arthur and Denise Blessitt in New York in 1993 with Joseph Verner Reed, the Under Secretary General to the United Nations.

(Left) Arthur with President Mobutu on his boat on the Congo River. (Right) Arthur and Joshua Blessitt with Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of South Africa in 1985.

(Left) Arthur with Dr. Ali A. Treiki, the permanent representative of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the United Nations. (Right) Arthur with HRS Prince Michael of Kent in front of Kensington Palace, London, England in 1995.