Country History Recalls October 7 Milestones

The history features look back at varied events in American culture and public life, including Morgan Wallen’s removal as an SNL musical guest in 2020 for violating COVID-19 protocols and Jason Aldean’s tribute to victims of the Las Vegas shooting. Other retrospectives recall Waukesha-area clergy and civic groups marking National Newspaper Week, with Carroll College president Gerrit T. Vander Lugt defending a free press, while Hubert Humphrey criticized the Nixon administration’s economic policies. In Greenville, a Girl Scout Library Shelf Project added scouting books and newly introduced handbooks to the public library’s collection. A separate account of 1955 recalls the Brooklyn Dodgers’ first World Series title, a proposal involving Grand Coulee Dam and Columbia River water, John Foster Dulles’s warning over arms shipments to Egypt, and James Dean’s death in a car crash.