Martin Digital History

Wilbur Forrest, 1973

Item

Title

Wilbur Forrest, 1973

Description

Wilbur Forrest stands in front of many tropical plants and trees. Forrest was a newspaper reporter for several different papers and worked as the assistant editor and director at the New York Herald Tribune. According to the New York Times, Forrest was the first to report (via a telephone line near Le Bourget airport) that Charles Lindbergh had landed in Paris after his Trans-Atlantic flight in 1927.

Published in the Stuart News (25 March 1973).

Source

Scan gift of Historical Society of Martin County,

Publisher

Stuart News (Stuart, Fla.)

Date

Rights

No Copyright - In the United States: The Martin County Library System believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. For more information, visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Format

Black and white print; 6x7 inches

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Identifier

HSMC-2023-018-3-b1-004
2023.018

Coverage

Original Format

Photographic print

Citation

Jefferson Siebert, “Wilbur Forrest, 1973,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/3387.