The New York Times, front page (New York, 8 May 1915): Lusitania sunk

Front page of The New York Times, Saturday 8 May 1915. The four-deck lead reads 'LUSITANIA SUNK BY A SUBMARINE, PROBABLY 1,000 DEAD; TWICE TORPEDOED OFF IRISH COAST; SINKS IN 15 MINUTES; AMERICANS ABOARD INCLUDED VANDERBILT AND FROHMAN; WASHINGTON BELIEVES THAT A GRAVE CRISIS IS AT HAND', over a photograph of the ship and bylined dispatches from Washington, Syracuse and London.

Date: May 8, 1915
Period: First World War
Made by: The New York Times (private newspaper, New York)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Newspaper pages
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Warn or inform
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War I
Techniques: Testimonial
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Internet Archive (Serials in Microfilm, digitised from microfilm), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (US; published before 1 January 1931)
The New York Times, 8 May 1915, Vol. LXIV No. 20,923; scan via Internet Archive; Wikimedia Commons file 'Sinking of the Lusitania at NYT title, May 8th, 1915.jpg' cites PD-US (before 1931) for the same issue

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The New York Times. 'All the News That's Fit to Print.' NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ONE CENT.

LUSITANIA SUNK BY A SUBMARINE, PROBABLY 1,000 DEAD;
TWICE TORPEDOED OFF IRISH COAST; SINKS IN 15 MINUTES;
AMERICANS ABOARD INCLUDED VANDERBILT AND FROHMAN;
WASHINGTON BELIEVES THAT A GRAVE CRISIS IS AT HAND

SHOCKS THE PRESIDENT / Washington Deeply Stirred by Disaster and Fears a Crisis.
Roosevelt Calls It An Act of Piracy.
Admiralty Puts Embargo On News Dispatches
SOME DEAD TAKEN ASHORE / Several Hundred Survivors at Queenstown and Kinsale.
ATTACKED IN BROAD DAY
Cunard Office Here Beseiged for News; Fate of 1,918 on Lusitania Long in Doubt
Loss of the Lusitania Fills London With Horror and Utter Amazement
DEATH OF FROHMAN IS FEARED IN LONDON
THE LOST CUNARD STEAMSHIP LUSITANIA (photograph caption)

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