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Obama makes a nighttime visit to Bob Marley Museum in Jamaica

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 04/09/2015 - 08:00

U.S. President Barack Obama gets a tour of the Bob Marley Museum from a staff member Natasha Clark (L) in Kingston, Jamaica April 8, 2015. While in Jamaica Obama will meet with leaders of CARICOM, the Caribbean Community nations, before continuing on to Panama for the Summit of the Americas. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- President Obama, who arrived here Wednesday evening for a meeting with Caribbean leaders, made an unscheduled nighttime visit to the Bob Marley Museum.

"I still have all the albums," Obama, in rolled up shirtsleeves, told museum guide Natasha Clark, as he toured the home in central Kingston where the Jamaican reggae great lived from 1975 until his death in 1981.

Marley's family has turned the rambling, Victorian style house and outbuildings into a museum where all things Marley are sold --T-shirts, posters, albums -- and artifacts from his life and Jamaican culture are displayed.

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