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Stars and Stripes also serves independent military news and information to an online audience of about 2.0 million unique visitors per month, 60 to 70 percent of whom are located in the United States. Stars and Stripes is a non-appropriated fund (NAF) organization, only partially subsidized by the Department of Defense. [13]
News from two fronts: American soldier reading Stars and Stripes, the official U.S. armed forces newspaper, while in Cambodia. Tensions between the news media and the Nixon administration only increased as the war dragged on. In September and October 1969, members of the administration openly discussed methods by which the media could be ...
The Overseas Weekly was an English-language newspaper published in Frankfurt, Germany, from 1950 to 1975. Its primary audience was American military personnel stationed in Europe, especially enlisted men and especially in Germany, reaching a circulation of about 50,000 copies a week. Sister publications eventually included Overseas Family and ...
May 13, 1972: Aftermath of the Bean Station bus-truck collision. At 5:35 a.m., a head-on collision between a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W in Bean Station, Tennessee, killed 14 people and injured 15, becoming one of the worst vehicular collisions in the state of Tennessee and topping headlines nationwide ...
John Twomey (musician) John Twomey is a manualist [1] who appeared on NBC 's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1972 and 1974. He is credited with bringing manualism to the public stage, as his performance of "Stars and Stripes Forever" was seen by millions of people and was included in the Best of Johnny Carson collection. Twomey also ...
The Times, and Patowmack Packet (1789–1791), first newspaper in the District; Voice of the Hill [30] Washington Bee (1882–1922) OCLC 10587828, ISSN 1940-7424 [31] [32] The Washington Daily News (1921–1972), predecessor to the Washington Star; Washington Globe [33] The Washington Herald (1906–1939) [34]
Guy Thomas Viskniskki (April 28, 1876 – September 5, 1949) was a career newspaper editor and news executive who founded the historic World War I edition of The Stars and Stripes newspaper while serving as a U.S. Army officer in France with the American Expeditionary Force. Viskniskki established the tradition of The Stars and Stripes as an ...
Beetle Bailey is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker, published since September 4, 1950. [2] It is set on a fictional United States Army post. In the years just before Walker's death in 2018 (at age 94), it was among the oldest comic strips still being produced by its original creator. [1]