November,1981...TIME Magazine's unflattering portrait of South Florida hits the newsstands.
Chamber of commerce and tourism official were sent into a state of shock after reading quotes like this in the magazine: “I see people walking down the streets openly carrying guns, some
in their hands, others in their holsters. You don’t dare honk your horn
at anybody; you could end up dead.”
Miami News cartoonist Don Wright responded to the hysteria with this classic cartoon.
Miami News, June 2, 1988:A Miami federal judge, who refused early today to release Orlando Bosch pending deportation hearings, cited more than 700 pages of secret government documents accusing Bosch of anti-Castro terrorism even after his release from prison in 1972.
Miami Herald, June 3, 1988:The ruling was followed by a bomb threat, which forced INS district director Perry Rivkind to evacuate the district office building at 7880 Biscayne Blvd. At 9:05 a.m. Thursday, a caller to El Nuevo Herald said the Alliance of Intransigent Cubans has determined the office was "ready to be destroyed."
Cartoon by Don Wright. Miami News, June 6, 1988. (Click to enlarge.)
In the summer of 1963, the Golden Glades interchange was under construction and detours were causing mammoth traffic jams that engineers predicted would last for months.
Here's how Miami News cartoonist Don Wright depicted the problem in a cartoon that appeared 50 years ago today.
Tens of thousands of words were written and spoken about the game. And that was before either team set foot the field.
There was plenty of trash talk from both sides.
"We're going to kick their butts," said Dolphins receiver Mark Duper.
Dolphins coach Don Shula was a little more circumspect saying simply, "It can't get more important than this."
On game day, the front page of the Miami News featured a superbly drawn cartoon - by the legendary Don Wright - of Bears defensive lineman William "The Refrigerator" Perry.
Inisde the paper, the editorial page carried another of Wright's cartoons, making it crystal clear which team Wright was picking to win the game.
Click image to enlarge.
Wright told me by phone today that he doesn't remember the cartoons he drew that week but does remember being among the 75,000 plus fans at the Orange Bowl that night who saw the 'Fins beat the Bears, 38-24.
As Wright left the OB that night, he was no doubt already starting to think of the cartoon he would draw for the Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1985 issue of the paper.
