The Los Alamos Monitor's first news story ever was a lead story about 85 Los Alamos residents who placed $250 each in a Pajarito Site Trust Fund. That was in March 1963. Just a few months after, President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
At the time, the paper's management saw fit to get local reaction to the horrific and tragic event.
That trend of including the county's relatively isolated population in on national news events, mixed in with hyper local coverage would continue throughout the Los Alamos Monitor's long, illustrious, 57-year career.