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Standard Gravure shooting. The Standard Gravure shooting occurred on September 14, 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, when Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured twelve at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in Kentucky's ...
Joe Creason. Joe Creason (June 10, 1918 – August 14, 1974) was a journalist who wrote for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky . He was born in Benton, Kentucky, which he would later humorously call "the only town in Kentucky where I was born." After graduation from the University of Kentucky in 1940, he became the editor of a Benton ...
The Courier-Journal was created from the merger of several newspapers introduced in Kentucky in the 19th century. A pioneer paper called The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was an early settlement of less than 7,000 individuals. In 1830 a new newspaper, The Louisville Daily Journal ...
Carol Sutton (June 29, 1933 [1] – February 19, 1985 [2]) was an American journalist. She got her journalism degree from the University of Missouri. [3] In 1974 she became the first female managing editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper, [4] The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. She was cited as the example of female achievement in ...
COST: Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, at Old Louisville Visitors Center inside Central Park, 1340 S. 4th St., and online. MORE INFORMATION:old-louisville-neighborhood-council.square.site.
Occupation (s) Attorney, Activist. Alberta Odell Jones (November 12, 1930 – August 5, 1965) was an African-American attorney and civil rights icon. She was one of the first African-American women to pass the Kentucky bar and the first woman appointed city attorney in Jefferson County. [1] She was murdered by an unknown person.
118,226 (1986) [4] The Louisville Times was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1884 by Walter N. Haldeman, [5] as the afternoon counterpart to The Courier-Journal, the dominant morning newspaper in Louisville and the commonwealth of Kentucky for many years. The two newspapers published a combined edition ...
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ( SBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Louisville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The seminary was founded in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at first housed on the campus of Furman University. The seminary has been an innovator in theological ...