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Source: Fall River Daily Evening News Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Cowardly Yellow Hypocrites” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Fall River, Massachusetts Date of publication: 21 September 1901 Volume number: 42 Issue number: none Pagination: 4 |
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| “Cowardly Yellow Hypocrites.” Fall River Daily Evening News 21 Sept. 1901 v42: p. 4. |
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| yellow journalism; Hearst newspapers; McKinley assassination (news coverage: criticism); William McKinley (criticism); William McKinley. |
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| William McKinley. |
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Cowardly Yellow Hypocrites
On the morning of the assassination the San Francisco Examiner, one of the three papers owned by the proprietor of the New York Journal, had a cartoon representing President McKinley as a minstrel, with black face, singing a coon song, deriding the common people. The next morning the Examiner announced the assassination with the remark that “William McKinley is loved as an American citizen, an American soldier, a simple man devoted to the interests of the people.”