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William Rockhill Nelson. The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. [3] The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful ...
Leon Mercer Jordan (May 6, 1905 – July 15, 1970) was an African-American civil rights leader who served in the Missouri House of Representatives. [1] [2] Jordan was "one of the most influential African Americans in Kansas City's history" [3] and, at the time of his assassination in 1970, the "state's most powerful black politician".
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The Kansas City Star, based in Kansas City, Missouri, is our region’s largest newsroom and covers both Kansas and Missouri news and issues. Published since 1880, The Star is the recipient of ...
He applied a subheading to the newspaper The Morning Kansas City Star and declared that The Kansas City Star was a 24-hour-a-day newspaper. In accordance with his will, employees took over the newspaper in 1926 upon the death of his daughter. The Star and Times were locally owned by employees until 1977, when they were sold to Capital Cities.
Roy A. Roberts (left), Amb. Mikhail A. Menshikov, and Milburn Akers on May 17, 1958 (Chicago Sun-Times). Roy Allison Roberts (1887 – February 23, 1967) was a managing editor, president, editor and general manager of The Kansas City Star who guided the paper during its influential period during the presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Leon Maurice Harden Jr. (August 17, 1947 [1] – June 24, 2017 [2]) was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). He played at the University of Texas at El Paso . Harden was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the eleventh round of the 1969 NFL/AFL draft and played that season with the team.
Kansas City and Local 42 firefighter union are still locked in a legal battle over an ongoing employment dispute involving Dominic Biscari, the firefighter involved in a deadly 2021 Westport crash.