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Carrollton, KY bus crash | Enquirer historic front pages from May 16

The Enquirer

Take a look back at history through the front pages of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Every day we look at 10 pages that show the local, national and international headlines.

Today’s pages cover news reported in The Enquirer on May 16 in years ranging from 1960 to 1998. Headlines included the tragic bus crash in Carrollton, Kentucky, in 1988 that resulted in the deaths of 27 people and a rare photograph of naturalist painter John James Audubon discovered in a Cincinnati closet in 1980.

Check out more editions of Today in History at Cincinnati.com. Get full access to more than 180 years of The Enquirer’s print archives at Newspapers.com.

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May 16, 1967

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May 16, 1976

May 16, 1980

May 16, 1988

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May 16, 1993

May 16, 1998