The most amazing newpaper front page I've seen...

[Blackjack]

(Ah I see I still cannot upload pictures, I'm getting the not allowed access to this page notice) Oh well, OK I'll use a link again...The Chicago Tribune Oct. of 36 I think, LOTS of important news

 

[Tomasso]

 

[Blackjack]

Thank you...

 

[Tomasso]

You're welcome.



Of course the most (in)famous Chicago Tribune front page was.........

 

[TCMfan25]

And the most sickening

 

[Deco-Doll-1928]

lol! I have to admit that I laughed at the headline. Capone is front page news with huge letters. Edison's death almost seems like a little side note ("BTW, Edison died too. Shouldn't he be put on the front page of the paper?" "Yeah, sure. Just place him under Capone." lol lol). Didn't realize that both happened at the same time! Thanks for posting this.

 

[Deco-Doll-1928]

Mind you that I am not old enough to remember any of these headlines during my life time. Maybe in my past life.

 

[Deco-Doll-1928]

Some more.

 

[Miss Sis]

Changed World history.

 

[Saint-Just]

A classic here:

 

[Shangas]

One of the most famous headlines ever:

The New York Times, October 31st, 1938. The War of the Worlds:

 

[Edward]

A classic here:

That is an extremely significant one, especially now. Whatever the truth of the matter, when John Major just squeeked into power in the 1992 election, the Sun claimed "It was the Sun wot won it".... and Westminster believed them. Thus began in earnest the long run of successive prime ministers of all political stripes courting the Murdoch press (and fearing them) - the fallout of which we are, of course, now seeing writ large as the UK arm of the Murdoch Empire begins to crumble.

One that always sticks in my mind, but that alas I can find no online photos of is the Daily Mail headline "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", from a January 1934 article by the proprietor Lord Rothermere, in which he praised Oswald Moseley, leader of the British Union of Facists, for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine". In 1933, Rothermere had also written: "The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing on Germany." Needless to say, the paper changed its tune a few short years later, and this particular period of its history is one that it is very keen to keep quiet.

 

[Edward]

And the most sickening

I don't think I would have said "sickening", but I do find it bizarre that they felt the need to use this marriage (bearing particularly in mind that the Anglican church was established with the monarch at its head in large part to facilitate Henry VIII's divorce from his first wife) as a reason to get rid of him rather than being open about the Nazi sympathies he and Mrs Simpson shared. Perhaps in those days the government felt that the monarchy enjoyed a level of unquestioning support that any attempt to criticise it would hit them hard at the polls?

 

[C-dot]

Can't forget this one:

 

[Steven180]

Sorry to fast forward...

M.

 

[TidiousTed]

Frontpage article from Weekly World News

 

[Talbot]

I was going to post 'Lindbergh flies the Atlantic'......but my cat got to it first (no comment).

 

[Connery]

 

[HadleyH]

And how can we forget the headline of 1926? that was a biggie too

Twelve thousand people had gathered to view the earthy remains of The Great Lover at Campell's funeral Church in New York. 80.000 mourners weeping, shrieking, fainting. A task force of 200 policemen struggling to keep the crowds under control, mounties were hissed as "Cossacks" when they charged hysterical mourners..... it was so horrible! And then, at the pressure of the crowd, the windows in the funeral parlor gave way my dears! can you imagine? total chaos :eeek: ... Krishnamurti the hindu teacher view this phenomenon with bewilderment. "Rudolph is not dead" he told reporters, he will come back...

 

[Lincsong]

It's unbelievable Hadley that he had that effect on people.