Flashback Friday

In 1996, there was a big unveiling ceremony for the new signage, letting everyone know it was now called the “G. V. Sonny Montgomery V.A. Medical Center.”

He became Mississippi’s first Republican governor since 1876, boosting a party that had been struggling for years to establish a real presence in the Magnolia State.

Twenty years ago this week, Mississippi got its own Armed Forces Museum.

Bob Keeshan, better known as Captain Kangaroo, was in Jackson 35 years ago.

The flooding in 1983 was devastating for many in Central Mississippi. WLBT went back into the archives to show you a look at what the conditions were like the last time the Pearl River reached such heights.