Pulaski Citizen
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The Pulaski Citizen is a local newspaper serving Pulaski, Tennessee. It is currently available in both print and online editions. Between online and print editions, total circulation for the newspaper is listed at 3,500.
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Founded | 1854 |
| Website | www |
History
The Pulaski Citizen was founded in 1854 as a four page weekly.[1] It has been in continuous publication since 1866.[2]
In the years after the Civil War, the paper's editor was L.W. McCord, whose brother Frank McCord was a founding member of the Ku Klux Klan.[3] During this period L.W. McCord feigned ignorance of what the Ku Klux Klan was, while simultaneously printing messages from them in the paper that he claimed to be mysteriously delivered.[4] Subsequently, Laps D. McCord became the owner, passing it on to others in the McCord family after his death.
In 1892 the Citizen was purchased by a Nashville businessman, leaving the McCord family.[5][6]