Jim McClure
Editor at York Daily Record
Retired editor, York Daily Record & Atlantic Region editor, USA Today Network. Interested in public history on digital platforms
Articles
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Jim McClure
After four years of death and disruption in the Civil War, one might think that everyone would seek peace at all costs at its end in the spring of 1865. But those days coinciding with Easter in April of that year were ripe with political tension and violence that came atop John Wilkes Booth’s politically motivated Good Friday shooting of Abraham Lincoln. At Easter in 1865, York County residents witnessed Democrats squaring off against Republicans and vice versa. Democrats sparred with one another.
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1 week ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
After four years of death and disruption in the Civil War, one might think that everyone would seek peace at all costs at its end in the spring of 1865. But those days coinciding with Easter in April of that year were ripe with political tension and violence that came atop John Wilkes Booth’s politically motivated Good Friday shooting of Abraham Lincoln. At Easter in 1865, York County residents witnessed Democrats squaring off against Republicans and vice versa. Democrats sparred with one another.
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2 weeks ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
Jim McClureYork Daily Record(Editor’s note: James McClure served as reporter, editor and publisher in Phil Buckner’s newspaper group, Buckner News Alliance, from 1977 to 2004. His masters work in American studies at Penn State Harrisburg focused on York County journalism history). When Phil Buckner acquired the York Daily Record in 1978, his immediate task was to right an upside-down business.
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1 month ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
About a week before his recent death, Gordon Freireich created a history of his life and times. Though dedicated to the written word, the 82-year-old changed course. A video and audio recording device captured his story. He talked about his purposeful life, and his accomplished wife, Ellen. He covered his newspaper editing career and his column for the York Sunday News. And he worked through his long engagement as a volunteer in the community.
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1 month ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
Jim McClureYork Daily RecordWest Manchester Township’s Linda Bean has recorded the stories of about 125 Vietnam War veterans in her 10 years with ALLVETS. So she’s well suited to summarize the stories of these veterans from York County and its region, part of an initiative that has resulted in 150 interviews with military veterans from all wars. The summary is that the experiences of the vets are hard to summarize. Some came home and quietly went on with their lives, she said in a recent interview.
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