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Merry Christmas and “Yes Virginia, There IS a Santa Claus!”

Merry Christmas!

We publish this every year on Christmas Day.

 

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

 

The full story behind the “Yes Virginia…” tradition on the Newseum website.

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