The Robesonian
| Owner(s) | Civitas Media[1] |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | W.S. McDiamid[1] |
| Publisher | M. Joseph Craig |
| Editor | Donnie Douglas |
| Founded | 1870[1] |
| Headquarters | 2175 N. Roberts Ave., Lumberton, North Carolina, US |
| Circulation | 14,000[1] |
| OCLC number | 10467669 |
The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning.
Notable events
The newspaper attracted national attention when on 1 February 1988 two Native Americans entered the newspaper's office and armed with pistols and Mountain-Dew "Feel the Wave"©[2] took twenty hostages.[3] The stand-off lasted ten hours; Timothy Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher[4] hoped to attract attention to the plight of American Indians, and later, after their arrest, had a local civil rights attorney deliver a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev in anticipation of a summit between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "A History of Ink and Paper". Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ↑ "Indians Hope Hostage-Taking Delivers More Than Attention". The Miami Herald. 8 February 1988. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ "Guilty Plea in Kidnap". Newsday. 5 May 1989. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ "Lumberton, Robesonian Back To Normal". The Fayetteville Observer. 3 February 1988. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ "Robeson Indians Send Protest to Gorbachev". The Fayetteville Observer. 3 April 1988. Retrieved 3 January 2011.