1735: America’s first trial for seditious libel
Posted in Historie on aug 13th, 2009
From Paul Johnson’s The History of the American People (p. 97f):
The venom of New York politics led to America’s first trial for seditious libel in 1735, when John Peter Zenger, who had founded New York’s Weekly Journal two years earlier, was locked up for criticizing the governor, William Cosby, and finally brought to trial after [...]
