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On This Day: Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is... (1735)

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On August 5, 1735: Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

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