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Our community of Fort Dodge is blessed with a dynamic history, a vibrant culture, rich traditions, and interesting nostalgia. This website makes information on historic Fort Dodge readily available and encourages people of all ages to learn, embrace and enjoy the robust history, abounding culture, and fond memories of our community.
Fort Dodge Community Foundation
​24 North 9th Street Suite B
Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501
(515) 573-3179
Walter Howey, born and raised in Fort Dodge become one of America’s most iconic newspaper journalists, eventually becoming editor–in–chief of Willam Randolf Hearst’s three Boston papers and two others in New York and Chicago. In 1944, Howey became a special editorial assistant to William Randolph Hearst.
His newspaper career in Chicago spawned the famous 1928 Broadway play, “The Front Page,” which became even more famous when made into a 1974 film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. The play’s true–to–life portrayal of the irascible Walter Burns was based on the Chicago journalist Walter Howey from Fort Dodge. Check out his bio in our Iconic People section.
