The Oldest Newspaper in Your House

[name not needed]

The oldest newspaper I could find was a copy of the Financial Times dated Monday March 4, 2002. Beat that.

[mrboba1]

1. Sept 12, 2001

unfortunately...

[MissMillie]

14. Me too

I saved a copy of it for my grandchildren.

2. I've definitely got newspapers from 9/12/2001

Daily News, NYTimes.

[NewJeffCT]

3. by 3 years...

I have a copy somewhere of the Hartford (CT) Courant dated late March or early April 1999, the day after my alma mater (UConn) won the national basketball championship.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. The newspaper drawer liners in my husband's old dresser date Jan 14, 1988

:hi:

[trotsky]

5. Doesn't anyone else have the paper from the day they were born?

1971 for me!

[mrboba1]

11. oh wait - my dad has

the paper from when he was born: 1939...
(that's not at my house though)

[Connie_Corleone]

17. Hello fellow 1971'er

:hi:

Unfortunately, I don't have a 1971 paper.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

6. Do clippings count?

My dad has Heinlein's obituary tucked away somewhere, and probably a few things even older.

[HEyHEY]

7. July 18 1969

Or whenever it was the moon landing happened

[Webster Green]

8. Washington Post with the huge headline "Nixon Resigns"

I bought the whole stack of papers in the store that morning. I still have a couple wrapped in plastic somewhere in this mess.

[PatriotGames]

9. "Japs Surrender!!!" or something to that effect.

I have a copy of some paper, I can't remember, it's stored away that my grandparents kept after WWII. I forget the name or the exact date...

[flamingyouth]

10. I've got all the papers from when Kurt Cobain died

But wait, there's more - I also have the Chicago Daily Tribune from August 1926 announcing Rudolph Valentino's death. My oldest magazine is Moving Pictures from 1911.

[sbj405]

12. I have some from 98 when the Wings won the Cup

GO RED WINGS!!!!

[NoPasaran]

13. El Paso Herald-Post: NIXON TO RESIGN

August 8, 1974

[Reverend_Smitty]

15. Sept 1963

Kennedy is on the front page...But I come from a newspaper family

[Connie_Corleone]

16. 9/12/01

It's the only newspaper I still have.

[johnnie]

18. I have a box that was found in one of the houses my parents bought

I know there is the Nov 23rd JFK assassination, the moon landing, Elvis' death and more. I am pretty sure it has D-day in there also, and if it's not at my house my father has it. I have to check when I get home.

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. A copy of the Louisville Courier-Journal from 1913...

with a Woodrow Wilson speech on the front page (my great-grandfather saw Wilson give the speech and saved the newspaper afterward).

[markus]

20. John Lennon is shot

Along with my clip set from college I'd have to check a lot of dates to see if any pre-date Lennon's death.

[TexasSissy]

21. I have one with the story about Nixon resigning. The 1970s?

It's in my "hope chest" with some other old stuff.

[RebelOne]

22. The front page of The Miami Herald in 1962

with the headline of JFK's assassination.