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Friday night playoffs: Nebraska high school football scores, updates
Death of a Salesman
- Peter Salter
- Apr 16, 2015
- Apr 16, 2015 Updated Aug 3, 2019
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Lincoln's newspapers covered Carl Christiansen's disappearance extensively, but every story ended the same way -- without answers.
ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
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He was born in Denmark in 1896, but Carl Christiansen (second driver from left) found his way to the U.S., and into the driver’s seat of a race car. Here he posed with others outside of the Andrew Murphy and Sons dealership in Omaha.
Courtesy photo
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The Lincoln Star covered the death of Sheriff William Flake on the front page on Feb. 6, 1940.
ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
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Allen Christiansen was 4 when his father vanished, and he watched his mother spend the rest of her life trying to find out what happened. “She would tell us what was happening, she would tell us what she believed,” he said. “We were well-versed in the story.”
ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
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Allen Christiansen was 4 when his father vanished, and he watched his mother spend the rest of her life trying to find out what happened. “She would tell us what was happening, she would tell us what she believed,” he said. “We were well-versed in the story.”
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