Fascinating history of the newspaper's 140 years. The paper led a successful crusade against a burgeoning KKK in the early 20th century. It brought the Fed too!
The Dallas Morning News turns 140! 📰
Texas’ oldest business publishes 51,135th consecutive edition.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2025/10/01/the-dallas-morning-news-turns-140/
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Cars from President John F. Kennedy's motorcade are parked outside the outside the emergency room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
Joe Laird / Staff photographer

Front page of the March 31, 1981 issue of The Dallas Morning News featuring the headline "PRESIDENT SHOT Suspect once lived in Highland Park" and a photo of President Ronald Reagan being hustled into the presidential limousine after having been shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
The Dallas Morning News

Pedestrians pass the headquarters of The Dallas Morning News at 1954 Commerce Street in Dallas on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.
Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer

"The Morning News celebrates 140 years. Count this as another victory for print. If you haven’t yet seen it, the physical version of the paper today does something that can’t be replicated online. To celebrate their anniversary, the folks at the News published a wraparound front page with a huge, beautiful illustration created by Michael Hogue. On the inside, they printed a replica of their very first all-text front page, from 1885. A story with a dateline from Baird, Texas, caught my eye: “AN ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE. Bold Assault of a Tramp on a Hotel Chambermaid at Baird—He is Followed Westward, Captured and Jailed. Quite an excitement was created here last night by the entrance of a tramp, who gave his name as Af. Wilson, into the apartments of one of the chambermaids at the Commercial Hotel and attempting to outrage her. The tramp came here Wednesday and was employed as dishwasher at the hotel. He entered the room in bare feet, carrying a large butcher knife in his hand. He approached the bed of the maid and arousing her, said: ‘If you make any noise I will kill you.'” There’s more. If you’re a design and/or journalism geek, this is one worth getting your hands on."
- Tim Rogers
https://www.dmagazine.com/micropost/the-morning-news-celebrates-140-years/