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Midday Report – May 15, 2024

Headlines from Alaska newspapers in the late 1940s covering the trials of Austin Nelson and Eugene LaMoore.
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Headlines from Alaska newspapers in the late 1940s covering the trials of Austin Nelson and Eugene LaMoore.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Budget negotiators in the Alaska Legislature have settled on the amount of this year’s Permanent Fund dividend and energy relief check. And Juneau executed two Black men for murder In 1948 and 1950. A legal historian says the trials were riddled with misconduct and errors, and should be remembered.

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