This Day in South Bend

This Day in South Bend

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This Day in South Bend episodes

  • City Beer Shortage Looms

    Today, we turn to Friday, April 7, 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt repealed the Volstead Act, and 3.2% percent beer returned to South Bend after over a decade of prohibition. 

    6 min
  • Tribune to Erect Radio, TV Center

    Today, we turn to Tuesday, April 6, 1954, for The Tribune's announcement of their plan to build a new, modern building in downtown South Bend exclusively for radio and television service. 

    9 min
  • 4,000 March to Courthouse

    Today, we turn to two articles published in the South Bend Tribune on Thursday, April 5, 1917, following the United States’ entrance to World War One, and Friday, April 5, 1968, in the days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Two tragic moments that, for a time, brought our interdependence to the surface.

    11 min

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A podcast about the history of South Bend. News articles from the city’s past by Jacob Titus, co-host of South Bend on Purpose. New episodes release each weekday morning.