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Madison in the Sixties – January 20, 1961
In 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy didn’t carry Madison in the Democratic presidential primary or Wisconsin in the general election. But his candidacy still had a profound local impact.
His primary campaign against Sen. Hubert Humphrey created enough Badgerland bitterness to last for years, even damaging the federal judiciary. And his election utterly transformed local politics, and ended the effort to build Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace auditorium and convention center.
Kennedy’s advisors didn’t want him entering the primary against the friendly liberal from neighboring Minnesota, who had two extra sectors of support. Some feared the Pope would unduly influence the Catholic Kennedy, while others who actually supported two-time nominee Adlai Stevenson were trying to block Kennedy from a first-ballot nomination at the national convention, hoping delegates would then draft the former Illinois Governor.
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William T. Evjue was born in 1882 and grew up in Merrill. He lived most of his adult life in the Madison area and became a powerful voice for progressive causes in the state capital, but he always found a way to return to his Northwoods birthplace, particularly at Christmas. When the holiday season of 1938 arrived, Evjue, like so many other Northwoods natives, packed up his family and began the trek northward to spend the holiday with his elderly parents in Merrill.
By 1938 automobiles were the preferred means of travel for most people as they allowed convenience of scheduling and avoided the awkwardness of lugging suitcases and Christmas packages onto crowded trains. However, the wide four-lane highways we enjoy today did not exist in 1938, and the narrow two-lane roads of the 1930s could be treacherous when the weather turned bad.
Decades ago, as I settled into my tiny apartment to start graduate school in Washington, D.C., I subscribed to the Washington Post â seven days a week for $5 a month.
Many years later, when I oversaw operations as a vice president of Madison Newspapers, I realized that my $5 perhaps had covered the costs of paper, ink, printing and delivery. And perhaps not. But the costs of producing all of that incredible journalism, well, that had to have been supported entirely by print advertising revenue.
That was then. Print advertising is now a fraction of what it once was.
I have shared that anecdote in speeches about economic challenges facing news organizations and how even historic local newspapers like the Cap Times need to adapt. And when Iâm not speaking about journalism economics I am likely talking about the assault on the professionâs integrity, epitomized by the popular use of âfake newsâ as a blanket descriptor for what is pejoratively called the â
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