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From the Archives: Ford pardons Nixon [+video]

Boston Herald front page from Sept. 9, 1974. (Herald archive screenshot by Joe Dwinell.)
Boston Herald front page from Sept. 9, 1974. (Herald archive screenshot by Joe Dwinell.)
Joe Dwinell

“A full, free and absolute pardon” is one heck of a free ticket.

That’s what President Gerald Ford granted on Sept. 8, 1974, and here’s that front page: Herald Sept 9 1974.

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