Local Angles

It was still The Fifties in the summer of 1963. By the next summer the fan was spraying it against every wall.</p>In less than a year Martin Luther King went to Washington with his dream President Kennedy was dead and something happened in Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin.</p>The <i>Waldo Sun-Advertiser</i> a small daily newspaper in suburban New Jersey reported the events with its community news.</p>It assigned a reporter to cover local civil-rights advocates who went to the March on Washington.</p>When the President was gunned down in Dallas the <i>Sun-Advertiser</i> got reaction to the assassination from town fathers.</p>The <i>Sun-Advertiser's</i> main stories about Vietnam came from wire services. But it did run staff-written obituaries on page one to honor the war dead from its circulation area.</p>This is the story of what happened on the <i>Sun-Advertiser</i> when the trouble started.