Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Monday, November 17th, 2008
July 15, 1971
Death penalty trials are grim stories.
Over the last 20 years I have worked at the paper I have covered portions of 3 of the 4 active county death row stories.
In 1971 there was a wave of 3 death penalty convictions within 9 months.
Joseph Deb Tregeagle was convicted of ...
Posted in 1970's, News | 6 Comments »
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Writer Gilbert Moore and photographer Jim Vestal visited Fort Ord in Monterey as training for the Vietnam War was ramping up. Both had been through basic training there in the early 1960’s but in the mid-1960’s thousands of soldiers were going to battle in South East Asia.
At the beginning of ...
Posted in 1960's, News | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 27th, 2008
April 15, 1963
By 10:30 a.m. an afternoon newspaper was in the home stretch, reporters and editors finishing last minute edits, copy editors writing headlines, the pressmen making final adjustments before starting the press that prints thousands of copies in time for circulation to deliver the bundles to the carriers.
When I ...
Posted in 1960's, News | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Ronald Reagan was running for governor in 1966 against two term incumbent Pat Brown. Here he stops at the San Luis Obispo Airport to shake hands. Vernon L. Sturgeon, state senator from Paso Robles, is at the left. Sturgeon was Reagan's legislative advisor and later held positions in Reagan's cabinet ...
Posted in 1960's, News, Politics, Popular Culture | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
May 10, 1901
Tribune librarian Sharon Morem has uncovered a stack of old prints from our files. Some of them are from before the paper published photos but they were printed on our pages at a later date so that is good enough to include in the blog.
The election season is ...
Posted in 1900's, Advertising, News, Politics, Railroad | 3 Comments »
