There were reporters from all the big regional dailies—the Milwaukee Journal, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Madison Capital Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Minneapolis Star, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and others. Some of these papers assigned as many as five reporters to cover various angles of the rapidly unfolding story. Writers and photographers arrived from Life, Time, and Look magazines. Television and radio stations sent news teams, and the Associated Press set up a portable wire service in the Local Union Telephone Company office to transmit photographs from
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