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In its 55-year lifespan, Greensboro’s War Memorial Auditorium played host to innumerable events and entertainers, from classical symphonies to classic rockers, solo folksingers to barbershop quartets. Mikhail Gorbachev and Desmond Tutu lectured here.Then-senator Barack Obama held a town hall meeting here during his first presidential campaign in 2008. Comedians Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, and Chris Rock held court here.