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Murder in the Cathedral

Scott Brady, star of "Canon City," and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post from 1946-1971, with a Denver Post newspaper, look at the headlines in an office in Denver, Colorado. A sheet with "The Denver Post Deadline Schedule" sits on the desk. The headline, about the 1947 prison break on which "Canon City" was based, reads: "2 Slain, 9 Captured, In State Pen Break, Stir Crazy Cons Lead Pen Break."

Special Collections and Digital Archives Blogs: Staff Favorites From 2021

Satanic Panic in Colorado

THE 2022 ELEANOR GEHRES AWARD, CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The George Washington Carver Day Nursery, Denver’s First Racially Integrated Day Care

Why Everything In The Archives Isn't Digitized (Yet)

Behind the Scenes - Processing & Cataloging Archives

A Collection is Born - Collections Acquisitions

The First African American Coloradoan To Be Nominated for Sainthood

From back of photograph: Demonstrators march against traffic during trek Saturday to Police Bldg. Lt. Jerry R. Caroccia drives police car.

Behind the Photo: Demonstrators March to the Denver Police Building, July 22, 1967

Poster gathered near Civic Center Park in Denver after a protest that took place in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder. The text reads "I couldn't breathe" and shows a drawing of George Floyd.

Assembling the George Floyd Protest Collection at DPL