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William T. Sherman marching...
Item # 728088 ·
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Feb. 16, 1865  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "LATE SOUTHERN NEWS" "Rapid Progress Of Sherman" "South Carolina Under His Heel" "He Seizes All The Railroads" "Circumvallates...
$29
1993 Snoop Dog murder charge...
Item # 727942 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sept. 4, 1993 

* Snoop Doggy Dogg & first degree murder charge
* West Coast hip-hop gangsta & G-Funk Rapper 

Page 16 of section B has a four column heading: "Rap Star Faces Murder Charge, Appears at...
$68
1981 child vocalist Eve Marie Shahoian...
Item # 727941 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 12, 1981 

* Young Eve Marie Shahoian w/ photo
* Child classical vocalist prodigy
* Opera & jazz singer and songwriter 

The bottom of page has a heading: "10-Year-Old Must Be Seen, and Heard" with...
$48
1956 actress Lauren Bacall...
Item # 727940 ·
PARADE magazine section only of the Detroit Free Press, Jan. 29, 1956

* Actress Lauren Bacall color cover photo
* Hollywood marriage with Humphrey Bogart

 The front page of this section has a nice color photo of a young...
$28
1921 Pueblo, Colorado flood...
Item # 727938 ·
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Mass., June 6, 1921

* Pueblo, Colorado flood disaster

The top of the front page has a three column headline: "TWO MORE FLOODS VISIT PUEBLO--100 BODIES FOUND PESTILENCE WORST MENACE" with...
$40
1946 Battle of Athens, Tennessee...
Item # 727937 ·
THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass. Aug. 3, 1946 

* Battle of Athens, Tennessee 
* McMinn County War 
* Corrupt local government 
* World War II veterans - voting

The front page has a two column heading: "GI's on Patrol in...
$48
Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.....
Item # 727936 ·
DER TAGESSPIEGEL--Extra, Berlin, Germany Nov. 10, 1989 

* Fall of the Berlin Wall (early report)
* It is BEST to have reports from the city where an event occurred

This four page extra has a great full front page photo...
$92
Hillside Strangler murders in Los Angeles...
Item # 727935 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, December 3, 1977

* Hillside Strangler serial killings
* Best title to be had ? (rare as such)

The front page has a two column heading: "Police Phones Flooded With Tips on 'Hillside Stangler'"" with...
$72
John Wayne Gacy discovered... serial killer clown...
Item # 727934 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Dec. 28, 1978

* John Wayne Gacy arrest
* Serial "killer clown" exposed
* Bodies discovered in crawl space

Here is nice issue on the discovery of John Wayne Gacy's crimes in a Chicago suburb. The top of...
$72
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter Execution day...
Item # 727933 ·
NEW YORK POST, March 5, 1944.
 
* Mob Boss Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter Execution
* Sing Sing Prison (day of) - appeal & SCOTUS

The bottom of the front page has a heading: "Supreme Court Meets On Lepke's Life Plea" And the
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$48