I was looking through boxes on my attic and found one filled with old newspapers my dad had collected including an @starsandstripes from 1973 marking the end of the Vietnam War. 
My dad was in basic training in Arizona in 1963 so I have the Arizona Daily Star on the day Kennedy was killed. The paper ran an “editorial” — on the front page, above the fold — speculating there were three shooters.
Culture wars on Page One of the NYT in 1965.
The incredible shrinking WaPo.
“The tone, on this day at least, is definitely upbeat.” #Bicentennial
Looking through this traces my dad’s life. We lived in Brussels in 1981 because he worked at NATO. So we read the late-great International Herald Tribune. cc: @DelWilber
Still the largest % drop on Wall Street in history. #BlackMonday
Reagan doing jokes at the hospital.
When sports teams, and specifically Washington’s football team, going to the White House was presumed to be a light-hearted, apolitical affair. #1983
I’ve got a lot more but will spare you...
Postscript: my parents were married in Orleans, France, so I also have a 1966 copy of La Republique when the city did a commemoration of Joan of Arc.
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