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Source: Liberator Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Los Angeles, California Date of publication: September 1901 Volume number: 3 Issue number: 2 Pagination: 12 |
| Citation |
| [untitled]. Liberator Sept. 1901 v3n2: p. 12. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (public response: criticism); Hearst newspapers (role in the assassination); William Randolph Hearst; lawlessness (mob rule); the press (criticism). |
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| William Randolph Hearst. |
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The attempt to place the blame for the cold blooded shooting of the President upon Mr. Hearst, is in our judgment cowardly. The mob spirit has been encouraged by the entire white press of America. Read the head lines [sic] describing mob murders and see for yourself. We have said all along that it would lead to a national calamity.