MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The first public observance to honor fathers took place 112 years ago when a West Virginia church organized a memorial event for 362 miners who died in a mining accident a year earlier.  However it wasn't until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation stating Father's Day should be celebrated nationwide on the third Sunday in June, and President Richard Nixon signed it into law 6 years later. 

On CBS 58 Sunday Morning, Rose Schmidt met a group of local fathers who’ve discovered coming together as a team is helping them become the best dads they can be.

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