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Floods Named Top Virginia News Story of 1969
In 1969 editors and broadcast directors voted the Janes River Basin floods as Virginia’s top story born of Hurricane Camille with mass destruction in Nelson County and over 200 lives lost. Linwood Holton’s election, Democratic primary fights, and other major items followed in the AP poll.
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Janes River
Linwood Holton
Old Dominion
Nelson County
Massie's Gee
Mill
Davis Creek
Holton
William C. Battle
Henry E. Howell
Fred G. Pollard
Battle
Howell
Associated Press
Mills E. Godwin Jr
Clement F. Haynsworth
President Nixon
Supreme Court
Senate
Richmond
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
L. Douglas Wilder
J. Sargeant Reynolds
Nixon
Aldhizer