The Associated Press Washington Bureau News Dispatches
between the tumultuous years between 1915 and 1930 are now online at
the Library, providing readers and researchers with a look at how some
of the biggest events of the era were reported to millions of readers
across the nation.
The 378,082 images in the collection fill 375 volumes and cover World
War I, women’s suffrage, the Roaring ’20s, the Jazz Age and the stock
market crashes of 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression. Written in
the news agency’s terse style, the dispatches show the immediacy of news
as it broke, in the era in which it was lived.
One dramatic example is the afternoon of May 7, 1915, about one year
into World War I. That day, a German U-Boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania,
a British liner, as it was returning from New York to Liverpool with
1,959 people aboard. The boat sank in 20 minutes, killing 1,128 people, a
toll that included more than 100 Americans. It was a shell-shock to a
nation that had, to that point, stayed out of the conflict.
via https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/05/the-ap-washington-bureau-1915-1930-now-online/
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