How Did Newspapers Report the Moon Landing? With Really Big Type
by AG | July 20, 2009 - 8:20am | 0 comments - 48 reads
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Forty years ago today Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and walked on the Moon. Although Matt Drudge wasn't around back then to flash his red and blue siren, the world's newspapers -- which, yes, people actually read back then -- certainly knew how momentous of an occasion it was. The excellent Newseum website has a round-up of some historic front pages from July 21, 1969. Here and after the jump are some of our favorites.
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