Well, it's Christmas Eve and many of us are going to stay in tonight because of the single digit temperatures and snow-covered, icy roads.
Why not take a look at what was on the front page of the Christmas Eve edition of the Journal from December 24, 1962? (There was to be no edition published on Christmas Day.)
There's a lot going on: Operation Ransom down in Cuba, where 1,113 invasion prisoners were being freed in a 'humans for cargo" swap; a White Christmas being forecast for Lorain, which was experiencing temperatures similar to what we have now; a longshoremen strike in New York; a hate crime down in Mississippi, where nightriders riddled the home of James Meredith (who had cracked the long tradition of segregation at the University of Mississippi) with bullets; and a biannual break in the hostilities between the Israelis and the Arabs allowing Christians to make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
All that and a cute seasonal cartoon.
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