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BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
HOW WE COVERED HISTORIC
THE FIRST ISSUE OF
THE LONG ISLAND
FARMER WAS PRINTED
IN JANUARY 1821
THEN CALLED THE LONG ISLAND DAILY
FARMER, THE PAPER COVERED BOTH THE
END OF WORLD WAR II AND THE 1918 FLU
THE LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS COVERED CHARLES
LINDBERGH’S HISTORIC SOLO TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
FROM ROOSEVELT FIELD IN 1927. THE FRONT PAGE OF THE 1938 HURRICANE WAS ONE FOR THE AGES
THE HEADLINE
AFTER THE
1941 ATTACK
ON PEARL
HARBOR
THE PRESS EXPOSED THE DEPTHS OF THE
LONG ISLAND HEROIN EPIDEMIC IN 2008
HOW WE COVERED THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT
TEDDY ROOSEVELT AT SAGAMORE HILL IN 1919
THE FINAL ISSUE OF THE 1800S
THE 1901 ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY
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