Cordele’s front page of history: July 21, 1969
Published 6:15 pm Sunday, July 21, 2019
- Cordele Dispatch readers picked up this edition of the paper on Sunday afternoon exactly 50 years ago. The July 21, 1969 issue celebrates the historic first moon walk by Apollo XI astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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In addition to coverage of the moon mission and the Vietnam War, there were stories about:
- the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick scandal,
- a Las Vegas showgirl,
- local livestock sales of $157,454.53 for the week, and
- a list of people admitted to and released from Crisp County Hospital.
Advertisements listed the price of a five-pound bag of flour as $.39 and a five-ounce package of bologna for $.19. The 10-page paper itself cost a dime.
