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Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck legacy continues 50 years later

Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck legacy continues 50 years later

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Retired AP reporter recounts covering the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Retired AP reporter recounts covering the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early.” But his news coverage the following day of the infamous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald helped shape its legacy. Atkins, now 86, was a news reporter in Detroit when he was sent to Michigan’s Upper …

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