By Philip Rosenbaum
New York (CNN) — When the Sunday edition of the Des Moines Register came off the presses on September 5, 1982, the front page headlines included: “USDA Focus Shifts Back to Farmers”; “Video Recorders Let Viewers ‘Beat the Clock,’ Spark TV Boom”; and “China Offers Accord with Soviet Union.”
Newspaper carrier Johnny Gosch disappeared on his route
Little did the newspaper’s editors realize that one of the biggest stories in Iowa’s history was about to unfold and that the central figure would be a 12-year old Register paperboy.
PHILIP ROSENBAUM 