The New York Journal-American (1937-1966) | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Name: The New York Journal-American (1937-1966)

Historical Note: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">The </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">New York Journal-American</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> was a </span>newspaper<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> published from 1937 to 1966. The </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Journal-American</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> was the product of a merger between two New York newspapers owned by </span>William Randolph Hearst<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">: The </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">New York American</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> (originally the </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">New York Journal</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">, renamed </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">American</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> in 1901), a morning paper, and the </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">New York Evening Journal</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">, an afternoon paper. Both were published by Hearst from 1895 to 1937. The </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Journal-American</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> was an afternoon publication.</span>

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