At the start of the 1970-71 school year, I was a reporter for the Central High School Echoes in Phoenix, Arizona. Later, I became the editor of the opinion page and then the editor-in-chief. I saved copies of all of our issues from 1970-71 and 1971-72 and in July 2015 I scanned them into PDFs. I have a few other issues from earlier and later that I also scanned.
If newspapers are the "first draft of history," as is sometimes said, then these issues provide a unique view into Phoenix, Arizonan, and American history circa 1970.
Comments: Jeremy G. Butler, Central High Bobcat, class of 1972. Contact: jgbutler@gmail.com .