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This is the famous photo taken of of the tornado over the Greene Memorial Hospital parking lot.

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This is the famous photo taken of of the tornado over the Greene Memorial Hospital parking lot.

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The April 4, 1974 Fairborn Daily Herald front page.

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The Xenia Gazette staff won a Pulitzer prize for its reporting about the tornado and for actually being able to publish a paper given the widespread damage.

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This series of photos showed the tornado forming.

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The Xenia Gazette received an award from the Ohio Associated Press for its reporting in extreme circumstances.

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The Gazette office still has this hanging on the wall.

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Looking north on Detroit Street.

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Shawnee Park was hit hard.