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The Opelousas Daily World was founded by John R. Thistlethwaite and Ducote Andrepont. The newspaper was the first offset-printed daily newspaper in the world, and remained the sole offset-printed daily newspaper for nine years. [1] Its first edition was published on December 24, 1939.
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John R. Thistlethwaite Jr. (July 16, 1918 – April 6, 1996) was an American journalist who founded the Daily World of Opelousas, Louisiana on December 24, 1939, the first American small town daily newspaper to use offset and photo-offset printing. Ducote “Duke” Andrepont was the newspaper's cofounder.
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The Opelousas massacre, which began on September 28, 1868, was one of the bloodiest massacres of the Reconstruction era in the United States. In the aftermath of the ratification of Louisiana's Constitution of 1868 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, tensions between white Democrats and Black Republicans in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana escalated throughout the ...
The nonprofit St. Landry Preservationists has practically no money remaining to maintain the Michel Prudhomme Home in Opelousas.