A Paper Gene

by Jordan Irwin

Uploaded 16 Oct 2008 — 4 favorites

© Jordan Irwin

As a young boy I used to look at the newspaper with my dad. I would like to save important newspapers or ones I liked. After breakfast I would go put them in my closet in a box. Come to find out my Dad had been saving newspapers as well, but had never told me. That smile he gave me everytime I took the newspaper in my room makes funny sense now. As my grandma approaches 99 years old just years ago she passed onto me what seems like a gene in our family, a box of saved newspapers that she collected growing up. I'm not some big collector or anything, just everytime I see these it reminds me of my grandma and how she kept each one of these front pages and special edition newspapers with her all these years, means a lot to me. These are just some of them, I couldn't fit them all into 1 picture, but I think you get the point.

hitler dead(wenesday morning May 2nd 1945)

first atomic bomb photo(Sunday Morning September 2nd 1945)

Kennedy Assassinated (Saturday Morning November 23 1963)

9/11

Man Walks On The Moon

The Deaths of Reagan, Nixon, Pope, Princess Diana, Frank Sinatra, Tupac.. the list goes on.

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