This month’s cover features a photograph of Joel Turner, 14, political analyst for the Hoot Owl children’s newspaper in Arlington, Texas, helping check results of a national children’s poll for the 1972 presidential election, tabulated at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The Hoot Owl was described as a “newspaper made for kids by kids” and was founded in 1970 by seven children between the ages of 6 and 14. Ballots in the kids’ election were mailed out through The Hoot Owl and distributed in schools locally and throughout the nation. More than a quarter million children from all 50 states participated in the election.

The photograph comes from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper photograph morgue of negatives housed in the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries’ Special Collections. The collection is comprised of over six million negatives, spanning from the early twentieth century through 2003, and documents national and international topics, focusing on topics of local and state interest to its Fort Worth, Texas readers. More information about the collection can be found on the UTA Libraries Digital Gallery at https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/collections/fort-worth-star-telegram-collection.