Roswell Daily Record
July 8, 1947, issue, featuring a story announcing the Roswell Army Air Field "capture" of a "flying saucer" from a ranch near Roswell. | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Roswell Daily Record, Inc. (Beck Trust - Marjorie S Beck) |
| Publisher | Barbara Beck |
General manager | Saralei Fajardo |
| Founded | 1891 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters |
|
| ISSN | 2379-0237 |
| OCLC number | 427420996 |
| Website | rdrnews |
The Roswell Daily Record is a local newspaper located in Roswell, New Mexico,[1] and has a circulation of less than 12,000. The paper is well known in the UFO community because it reported the alleged Roswell UFO crash in 1947.[2]
History
In March 1891, Joseph D. Lea founded the Roswell Record.[3] Lucius Dills was editor for several years. In January 1899, Lea and Dill sold the Record to Elmer O. Creighton and A.A. Burnett.[4] A few months later Burnett exited the business.[5]
In September 1902, Charles E. Mason and his brother-in-law Professor Harvey F.M. Bear bought the paper from Creighton.[6] It was soon expanded from a weekly into a daily.[7] In April 1903, the paper's printers went on strike.[8] In February 1905, Bear died.[9] At that time his widow Grace Thorpe Bear incorporated a stock company and transferred ownership to it.[10] In April 1905, former owner Creighton died.[11] George A. Puckett succeeded Bear as editor, and he died in December 1909.[12]
Mason eventually became editor. In February 1932, Arthur W. Cooley bought the Record. The other new minority owners were T.N. Gretzer and Thomas B. Shearman. Mason and Mrs. Bear retained interests.[13] In 1937, Shearman took over as publisher.[7] In April 1940, Mrs. Bear died.[14] In May 1949, the paper installed a new printing press.[15] In September 1949, the Record acquired and absorbed the Roswell Morning Dispatch.[16]
Shearman, who eventually acquired full ownership, was succeeded as publisher by his son-in-law Robert Hallum Beck in 1955.[7] Beck's father Robert Beck died in 1987,[17] and Shearman died in 1988.[18] Around that time R.H. Beck retired and was succeeded by his son Robert Cory Beck, who died in 2006.[19] Charles Fischer ran the paper until Barbara Beck, sister of R.C. Beck, took charge in 2015.[7] R.H. Beck died in 2018,[20] and his wife Marjorie Shearman Beck died in 2021.[21]
See also
References
- ^ "The Roswell Daily Record (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-Current". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
- ^ "The Roswell incident: how 'UFO sighting' sparked 70 years of conspiracy theories". The Week. June 26, 2018. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
- ^ "Notice". The Santa Fe New Mexican. March 11, 1891. p. 2.
- ^ "Notice". Albuquerque Journal. January 13, 1899. p. 2.
- ^ "Local". The Carlsbad Current. March 25, 1899. p. 5.
- ^ "Roswell Record Sold". The Deming Headlight. September 6, 1902. p. 1.
- ^ a b c d "Roswell Daily Record gets new publisher". The Taos News. September 3, 2015. pp. B009.
- ^ "A Newspaper Strike". Las Vegas Daily Optic. April 30, 1903. p. 1.
- ^ "Harvey F.M. Bear | Editor of Roswell Record Died of Ascending Paralysis". Albuquerque Weekly Citizen. February 4, 1905. p. 6.
- ^ "Newspaper Reorganizes". The Santa Fe New Mexican. February 22, 1905. p. 7.
- ^ "E.O. Creighton Dead. | A Former Roswell Editor Succumbs to Injuries Received Last Week". Carlsbad Current-Argus. April 14, 1905. p. 8.
- ^ "George A. Puckett Is Dead". The Monitor-Press. Wellington, Kansas. December 15, 1909. p. 1.
- ^ "Sale of Record was Announced Roswell Today". The Roswell Daily Record. February 29, 1932.
- ^ "Aged Society Editor Of Roswell Record Died At Vegas Meet". Carlsbad Current-Argus. Associated Press. April 26, 1940. p. 1.
- ^ "Roswell Record Orders New Press". El Paso Times. El Paso, Texas. Associated Press. May 28, 1949. p. 5.
- ^ "Roswell Dallies Merge Saturday". The Albuquerque Tribune. Associated Press. September 29, 1949. p. 6.
- ^ "Publishers' father dies after lllness". El Paso Times. El Paso, Texas. Associated Press. August 20, 1987. p. 14.
- ^ "Deaths in the area | Shearman once published Hobbs paper". El Paso Times. El Paso, Texas. April 6, 1988. p. 10.
- ^ "Roswell Paper's Publisher Dies | Sudden illness claims man who devoted decades to newspapers". Albuquerque Journal. Associated Press. December 19, 2006. p. 32.
- ^ "Roswell Daily Record owner Robert Beck dies". Daily Times. Farmington, New Mexico. Associated Press. August 30, 2018. pp. A2.
- ^ "Obiturary | Marjorie Shearman Beck". Roswell Daily Record. August 7, 2021. Archived from the original on April 18, 2026. Retrieved April 18, 2026.