EDITOR'S NOTE: In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, The Sioux City Journal today looks back at how it covered some of the defining national and local moments over its 162-year history.
In 1876, The Journal was an active purveyor of Black Hills gold rush news. Because of Sioux City's position on the Missouri River, the area was a major waypoint on the way to the Black Hills. The Journal carried extensive reports of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, though the first reports didn't arrive until a week and a half after the event, likely due to poor mail service and a lack of telegraph wires in the thinly populated Dakota Territory.Â
Hero-aviator Charles A. Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to Rickenbacker Field in North Sioux City on Aug. 27, 1927, only three months after his solo flight across the Atlantic. He was greeted by Sioux City Mayor Stewart Gilman.Â
The headline of the Monday, Dec. 8, 1941 issue of The Sioux City Journal which uses language of the time to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese military.
The photograph that symbolized the 1989 rescue effort in Sioux City: Spencer Bailey, 3, is carried from the wreckage of United Flight 232 after it crashed at Sioux Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. Lt. Col. Dennis Nielsen of the 185th Fighter Wing, Iowa Air National Guard, carries Bailey.
In 1876, The Journal was an active purveyor of Black Hills gold rush news. Because of Sioux City's position on the Missouri River, the area was a major waypoint on the way to the Black Hills. The Journal carried extensive reports of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, though the first reports didn't arrive until a week and a half after the event, likely due to poor mail service and a lack of telegraph wires in the thinly populated Dakota Territory.Â
Hero-aviator Charles A. Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to Rickenbacker Field in North Sioux City on Aug. 27, 1927, only three months after his solo flight across the Atlantic. He was greeted by Sioux City Mayor Stewart Gilman.Â
The photograph that symbolized the 1989 rescue effort in Sioux City: Spencer Bailey, 3, is carried from the wreckage of United Flight 232 after it crashed at Sioux Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. Lt. Col. Dennis Nielsen of the 185th Fighter Wing, Iowa Air National Guard, carries Bailey.
The headline of the Monday, Dec. 8, 1941 issue of The Sioux City Journal which uses language of the time to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese military.
