Editing Lebanon, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Lebanon was [[plat]]ted in 1887 when the [[Burlington & Missouri River Railroad]] was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/redwillow/lebanon/ | title=Lebanon, Red Willow County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 22, 2014}}</ref> Its name commemorates the [[Cedrus libani|Cedars of Lebanon]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 |isbn=0-8032-5060-6 | pages=117}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref>

In April 1955 Charles Harris, a delegate chosen by the Mayor of Lebanon, was part of a delegation of forty mayors of American cities called "Lebanon" which was invited to the Middle East by the government of the country [[Lebanon]]. The mayor of Lebanon in 1955 was Chester Keith, who couldn't go due to his age. When visiting [[Jerusalem]], then partitioned between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], Harris accidentally crossed the border and was shot to death by a Jordanian soldier. At the time, his death sparked a major international incident, with the UN launching an investigation, Israel and Jordan each putting the blame on the other.<ref>Reported (in Hebrew) by [[Haolam Hazeh]] weekly, April 21, 1955 [http://magazine.thisworld.online/texts/uri_avnery/haolam/B-I0914-D210455.pdf#page=9&search=%22%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A7%22]</ref>