In about 1910, Alaska Gold Rush newspaper editor/printer/investigative reporter George Hinton Henry published scathing but true stories of United States Commissioner in Tanana, Alaska, George Bathurst. Bathurst responded by sending Henry to jail for 90 for contempt of court. Not to be silenced, Henry hired another writer to continue to publish scathing articles on Bathurst. The Commissioner then put the printing press in jail. When Henry was released, the printing press was not. Henry moved on to another community and the printing press was dumped in Tanana garbage pit – where it was recovered in 1923 and is in Central, Alaska today.
When ‘Freedom of the Press’ meant the press.
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