Finally, It’s Fort Lawton Park

Just over forty years ago on September 2, 1972 the front page of the Seattle Times read: “Finally, It’s Fort Lawton Park”. The sub-headline was “Patricia Nixon Cox, darts in and delivers deed”. Ironically, this was the culmination of a huge amount of work by Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, a short-lived presidential hopeful against President Richard Nixon that same year. “ From the Magnolia News, Sept 2012.