Charles Apple

Current Position: designer editor

Charles Apple joined The Spokesman-Review in 2019 as a design editor. He designs weekly Further Review pages that cover subjects such as the history of comics, William Shatner, Tiger Woods, autism spectrum disorder and even how to get your Spokesman-Review aboard the International Space Station. Apple has worked for papers across the nation, large and small. He is considered an informational graphics guru, winning countless international awards and his work consulting and training newsrooms around the world.

Email: charlesa@spokesman.com

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The Phantom Menace, 25 Years Later

Fri., May 10, 2024

“Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace” gave us a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, an even younger Darth Vader and one of the most annoying characters ever featured in a wildly popular film 25 years ago, this May.

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Coming To You Live…

Thu., May 2, 2024

Nineteen thirty-nine was a big, big year if you were a sports fan, you lived in New York City and you owned one of the primitive TV sets that were available at the time. Five sports made their live television debut over a 10-month period from May 1939 to February 1940.

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The Inauguration of George Washington

Tue., April 30, 2024

After the revolutionary war, all that George Washington wanted to do was rest on his plantation - but the young United States still required his service, and so he agreed to run for president in the nation’s first election. He was unanimously elected 235 years ago.

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Tiger by the tail: How a disastrous war game in England paved the way for the eventual D-Day victory

Sun., April 28, 2024

80 years ago began Exercise Tiger, a large-scale initiative to prepare soldiers for D-Day with training on the English coast. The practices ran fine, until the Germans got involved.

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‘Endgame’ of an era: How Marvel’s final Avengers flick made box office history five years ago this week

Fri., April 26, 2024

Tying up the 4th phase of the MCU 5 years ago came Endgame - a film that was the culmination of a plethora of Marvel stories. It was received well, making a splash in the box office, and setting a record for the highest gross income from a comic book movie.

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After Apartheid: How South Africa Began To Heal Its Painful History 30 Years Ago This Week

Thu., April 25, 2024

Thirty years ago this week, Black South Africans were allowed to vote for the first time in their home nation. Their first act? Elect Nelson Mandela, a longtime defendant of civil rights -- and former prisoner in the country.

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An Enemy Identified: Looking Back 40 Years After HIV Was First Linked to AIDS

Tue., April 23, 2024

During the Reagan administration came a new threat with AIDs, and a swirl of drama, as then U.S. secretary of health and human services announced a potential vaccine and scientists raced to be the first to find the virus behind the disease.

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Easy To Be ‘Hair’: A Look Back At The Smash-Hit Musical That Crossed Culture With Counterculture

Fri., April 19, 2024

In 1969, as the Vietnam War and the growing counterculture movement came to a head, a Broadway show called 'Hair' debuted, serving as a timeless musical love letter to the hippie movement

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The Beginning of an Epidemic: Columbine, 25 Years Later

Thu., April 18, 2024

A quarter-century ago, two heavily armed teens shocked middle America in what was then the first highly publicized school shooting. Fifteen people died in the Columbine shooting, and since then, the number of injuries and fatalities caused annually by school shootings has skyrocketed.