1974 Queen, The Allman Brothers & Lynyrd Skynyrd...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, May 2, 1974



* "Queen" II concert tour - English rock band

* Gershwin Theatre performances advertisement

* The Allman Brothers Band concert advertisement

* Lynyrd Skynyrd "Second Helping" album release

* "Sweet Home Alabama" "Don't Ask Me No Questions"



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Murder, Inc.hitmen sentenced to death in 1941...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 13, 1941



* Martin Buggsy Goldstein & Harry Strauss

* Murder, Inc. Hitmen - contract killings

*Execution - executed by electric chair



The top of page 15 has a one column heading: "2 IN  MURDER RING ARE PUT TO DEATH" with subheads. (see images)

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1949 Superga air disaster... Torino F.C....

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., May 5, 1949



* Superga air disaster

* Fiat G.212 airplane crash

* Torino F.C. Football Club

* Grande Torino soccer team killed



The top of page 13 has a one column heading: "ITALIAN PLANE CRASH KILLS 25" with subhead. (see image)

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Review & premiere of "My Cousin Vinny", in a Los Angeles newspaper...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 13, 1992



* Best "My Cousin Vinny" movie advertisement

* Grand Opening Day premiere review

* Comedy film - Marisa Tomei - Joe Pesci



A terrific issue on the premiere of the motion picture hit "My Cousin Vinny" and perhaps no better issue could be found than this, the leading newspaper from the home of the entertainment industry - the Hollywood are... See More  

Margaret Mitchell killed by car in 1949...

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., August 17, 1949



* Margaret Mitchell killed

* 'Gone With the Wind' author

* Pulitzer Prize winner



Page 12 has a one column heading: "'Gone With Wind' Author Succumbs To Auto Injuries" (see image)

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"Alien Order" begins internment of Japanese during World War II...

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, February 22, 1942



* Internment of Japanese Americans

* FDR's Executive Order 9066

* Alien control order

* World War II - WWII



The top of page 9 has a one column heading: "278 AXIS ALIENS SEIZED IN PACIFIC COAST, IN ARIZONA" with subhead. (see images)

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LSU Tigers win 2003 college football title...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Jan. 5, 2004



* LSU - Louisiana State University

* Wins Sugar Bowel vs. Oklahoma

* Wins National Championship

* Nick Saban's first college football title



Near the bottom of the front page is a three column color photo of Nick Saban celebrating his first national championship with his players. Also a heading: "LSU Defeats Oklahoma; USC Beats BCS" (see)

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2007 Omaha, Nebraska mall shooting...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Dec. 6, 2007



* Westroads Mall mass shooting

* Omaha, Nebraska murder suicide

* Gunman shooter Robert Hawkins



The front page has a one column heading: "Deadly rampage at the mall" with subhead & related photo.

Complete with all sections (100+ pages), nice condition.

Battle of Shanghai beginning in 1937...

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Sept. 6, 1937



* Battle of Shanghai, China

* Imperial Japanese Army

* Second Sino-Japanese War



The front page has a banner headline: "BIG PUSH OPENED BY JAPAN" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.

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1945 Battle of Iwo Jima w/ photo....

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, February 21, 1945.



* Battle of Iwo Jima w/ photo

* Fighting on Mount Suribachi

* United States Flag planting close



The front page has a somewhat brief report with small heading: "Marines Take Iwo Airfield..." and more. (see image) The iconic flag raising on Mount Suribachi would occur two days later. Given the small report here, it is somewhat surprising... See More  

Review & premiere of "The Wizard", in a Los Angeles newspaper...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, December 15, 1989



* Best "The Wizard" movie advertisement

* Grand Opening Day premiere review

* Super Mario's Bros. 3 introduced in America

* Fred Savage - Beau Bridges - Christian Slater

* Tobey Maguire's uncredited film debut



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Opening of the 1942 movie "Jungle Book"...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 3, 1942 



* Opening of the movie "Jungle Book" (eve)

* Technicolor action adventure film

* Adaption of Rudyard Kipling's book



Page 25 has a 7 x 6 inch advertisement for the opening day premiere of "Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book" in New York City which began the following day. (see images)

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Arrest of atomic bomb spy, Klaus Fuchs...

THE DETROIT NEWS, Feb. 3, 1950 



* Klaus Fuchs arrested (1st report)

* German theoretical physicist

* Nuclear - atomic bomb spy

* re. Manhattan Project



The front page has a nice banner headline: "ATOM SCIENTISTS JAILED"  with lead-in: "Leaks to Russia!" and subheads. (see images) Nice for display.

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1967 Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 disaster...

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass. July 20, 1967



* Piedmont Airlines Flight 22

* Hendersonville, North Carolina

* Airplanes mid-air collision disaster

* Boeing 727-22 and Cessna 10 aircrafts



Near the bottom of the front page has a four column heading: "10 Children Among 82 Killed" with related photo. (see images)

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1919 anarchist bombings...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 3, 1919



* United States anarchist bombings

* Red Scare of 1919-20 - Anarchism



The front page has a nice banner headline: "MIDNIGHT BOMBS FOR OFFICIALS IN 8 CITIES; BOMBERS DIE AT ATTORNEY GENERAL'S HOUSE; TWO VICTIMS AT JUDGE NOTT'S HOUSE HERE; BOMBS IN BOSTON, CLEVELAND, PITTSBURGH" with many subheads. (see images) Nice for display. Loads of text.... See More  

2nd 1965 march... Selma to Montgomery, Alabama...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, New York, March 10, 1965



* Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

* Martin Luther King Jr.

* 2nd march try - failure



The front page has a very small heading: "Civil Rights Marchers..." (see images) Of course a small heading here as it's the Wall Street Journal, still a first report though and on the front page.

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Mauna Loa volcano bombed by warplanes in 1935...

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, December 27 & 28, 1935



* Mauna Loa volcano bombed

* 23d Bomb Squadron warplanes

* Two issue set



The front page of the Dec. 27th issue has a one column heading: "Bombs Ordered To Blast Lava Flor in Hawaii"

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Brown vs. Board of Education...

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"Forrest Gump" wins 6 oscars in 1995...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Feb. 20, 1979



* 51st academy awards - movies of 1978

* "The Deer Hunter" "Heaven Can Wait"

* Robert De Niro - Vietnam War soldiers

* 9 nominations for each of these films

* Best publication to be had (rare as such)



The front page has a banner heading: "Oscar Derby Tie" with lead-in: "18 Nominations For 2 Films" and subhead. (see ... See More  

Ohio State wins 1st Big Ten track & field title in 1942...

SPORT'S SECTION only of the Chicago Sunday Tribune, March 8, 1942



* Ohio State Buckeyes win 1st championship

* Big Ten indoor track and field championships



The front page of this section has a nice banner headline: "OHIO STATE WINS BIG 10 INDOOR TRACK TITLE" with subheads, results and three related photos. (see) Nice for display

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On the death of Malcolm X...

SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, Mass., Feb. 28, 1965 



* Malcolm X assassination - funeral

* Fiery Negro extremist - activist

* Elijah Muhammad - Muslims



The front page has a one column heading: "FUNERAL RITES OF MALCOLM X ARE PEACEFUL" with subhead. Two related photo on page 17.

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1961 Barbra Streisand's 1st acting performance review...

THE VILLAGE VOICE, Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 26, 1961



* Barbra Streisand - singer & actress 1st performance

* "Another Evening with Harry Stoones"  musical play review - Off-Broadway

* Very early and extremely rare item on Streisand (19 yrs. old)

* Aretha Franklin - American singer songwriter - pianist

* Village Gate - Greenwich Village nightclub advertisement



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Tuskegee Airmen graduates... Lucy Parsons...

CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, March 8, 1942



* Tuskegee Airmen graduate from University

* World War II African Americans military pilots

* First in the United States Army Air Forces

* Lucy Parsons burned to death - anarchist



The top of page 10 has a one column heading: "U. S. GRADUATES FIRST SQUADRON OF NEGRO FLYERS" with subheads. (see images) These first African American military pil... See More  

Queen Elizabeth II - Coronation of England's longest reigning monarch...

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, June 3, 1953 



* Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II



The banner headline at the top of the front page announces: "ELIZABETH II CROWNED QUEEN" with related subheads, and a photo of her and her family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Much more inside. Queen Elizabeth II has now surpassed the reign of Queen Victoria, the previous longest reigning monarch ... See More  

1936 death of William Hope Harvery...

THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, Feb. 12, 1936



* William Hope 'Coin' Harvey death

* Monetary bimetallism advocate

* Silver as  legal tender -Liberty Party



The front page has a one column heading: "'COIN' HARVEY DIES; PIONEER SILVERITE" with subhead. (see image)

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