According to a 1974 newspaper report, an unemployed math consultant from Vermont wanted a federal judge to invalidate President Richard Nixon’s second election in 1972, the one...
The Friday before Thanksgiving in 1963. November the 22nd. La Crosse would set a new record high for the date, 59 degrees. Central would host Richland...
In 1984, automobile man John DeLorean went on trial for trafficking cocaine. DeLorean claimed police entrapment, and he was acquitted. A newspaper cartoon that November showed...
In late October of 1976, Senator Bob Dole paid a campaign visit to La Crosse and West Salem. Dole was President Gerald Ford’s running mate on...
In the fall of 1973, America’s bicentennial was less than three years away, and La Crosse was forming a committee to plan the local celebration. Richard...
During this week in 1863, President Lincoln gave his most famous speech, at the dedication of a cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The November 19th ceremony came...
In late 1990, Rockland was lobbying for an I-90 interchange that would help development of the town. Construction was scheduled for 1995, but the project never...
In November of 1979, about 75 people took part in a march on the UW-L campus, protesting against the hostage crisis in Iran. The demonstration was...
Just before Thanksgiving of 1977, Mayor Pat Zielke was celebrating the passage of a nearly $10 million referendum to let the city of La Crosse build...
Fifty-seven years ago, La Crosse police compared accident figures from 1961 to the previous year. There were about four crashes a day in La Crosse, for...
In 1976, Father James Groppi of Milwaukee spoke on the La Crosse campus, and was back in the headlines. Groppi had become famous for civil rights...
A La Crosse newspaper headline said “Attempt on life of Fuehrer fails.” And there was only one Fuehrer around, Adolf Hitler. In November of ’39, Hitler...
In the summer of 1999, government protester Kurt Machholz climbed to the top of the Cass Street bridge in La Crosse, halting afternoon traffic as he...
In November of 1963, Republicans were making plans for a comeback in 1964, hoping to limit Democrat John Kennedy to just one term. But Democrats scored...
“This…is London” was a familiar opening to Edward R. Murrow’s radio reports from England during 1942. Murrow and other CBS reporters, including Charles Collingwood and Eric...
A humorous song about “poisoning pigeons in the park” was talked about in real life in La Crosse, in 1976. The idea of poisoning pigeons...
The Bush family has been among the many political visitors to La Crosse in recent years. Both U.S. presidents named Bush came to La Crosse while...
Anoka, Minnesota was holding its yearly children’s Halloween parade on October 31st of 1961, when an out-of-control car crashed on the parade route, killing two women...
Only one major league baseball club from Wisconsin has ever been a World Series champion, and that was the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. They beat the Yankees...
President Jimmy Carter and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan met in just one televised debate in 1980, in Cleveland one week before the election. Third-party candidate John...