A crowd observes the world’s first Earth Day on April 23, 1970, in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
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When the current crisis passes, we must seize the opportunity to re-imagine, and to create, a different kind of future.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew on Aug. 8, 1973 at a Washington news conference.
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When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
The Capital Gazette in Annapolis lost five staffers in a shooting.
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Violence against journalists is on the rise. Many people don’t realize that such acts have a long tradition in the US, where partisan rancor was once a hallmark of American journalism.