The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names
A presentation of obituaries and death notices from newspapers around the country tries to frame incalculable loss.
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Instead of the articles, photographs or graphics that normally appear on the front page of The New York Times, on Sunday, there is just a list: a long, solemn list of people whose lives were lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
As the death toll from Covid-19 in the United States approaches 100,000, a number expected to be reached in the coming days, editors at The Times have been planning how to mark the grim milestone.
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Πηγή: nytimes.com
“An incalculable loss”
The stark front page of today’s New York Times, plus three inside pages, consist of two-line obituaries (“Always first on the dance floor. … Preferred bolo ties and suspenders”) for 1,000 of the nearly 100,000 Americans who have died of coronavirus — 1% of the toll:
- Cornelia Ann Hunt, 87, Virginia Beach, her last words were “thank you” Rita Paas, 88, Comstock Park, Mich., never missed “Wheel of Fortune,” “Jeopardy” or “Lawrence Welk” • Lila A. Fenwick, 87, New York City, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School • Alice Coopersmith Furst, 87, Kentfield, Calif., in the first class of girls admitted to the Bronx High School of Science.
- Bobby Lee Barber, 84, Buckley, Wash., Seahawks season-ticket holder •Rhoda Hatch, 73, Chicago, first in her family to graduate college • Regina Dix-Parsons, 75, Schenectady, N.Y., stalwart church gospel singer • Lakisha Willis White, 45, Orlando, Fla., was helping to raise some of her dozen grandchildren.
- Barbara Yazbeck Vethacke, 74, St. Clair Shores, Mich., she was known to many as Babs • June Beverly Hill,85, Sacramento, no one made creamed potatoes or fried sweet corn the way she did • Kimarlee Nguyen, 33, Everett, Mass., writer who inspired her Brooklyn high school students • Kamal Ahmed, 69, New York City, hotel banquet worker and Bangladeshi leader • Israel Sauz, 22, Broken Arrow, Okla., new father.
A huge team at The Times drew the accounts “from hundreds of obituaries, news articles and paid death notices that have appeared in newspapers and digital media over the past few months.”
- Marc Lacey, national editor, said: “I wanted something that people would look back on in 100 years to understand the toll of what we’re living through.”
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