June 7, 1893

John Netherland (J. N.) Heiskell graduated at the head of his class at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Heiskell served as editor of the Arkansas Gazette for more than seventy years. Over the course of his career, he headed the newspaper during two world wars, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and thousands of other events.

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