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    John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German printer and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal...
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  • pre-date the American Revolution; one influential case in 1734 involved John Peter Zenger and established precedent that "The Truth" is an absolute defense...
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    failed to return an indictment for seditious libel against journalist John Peter Zenger, the Attorney General filed an information and Justices Philipse and...
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    The New York Weekly Journal was a weekly journal, printed by John Peter Zenger, from November 5, 1733 to March 18, 1751. It was the second journal in...
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  • Felix Zenger (born 1986), Finnish beatboxer John Peter Zenger (1697–1746), a German-American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist SS Peter Zenger, Liberty...
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    accused publisher John Peter Zenger of sedition and libel for publishing unflattering reports about Cosby. In spite of Cosby's efforts, Zenger was acquitted...
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    his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. His involvement with the 1735 decision in New York helped to establish...
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  • for his legal victory on behalf of printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger, is believed to have inspired the "Philadelphia lawyer" term. This...
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    libel lawsuits. An early example of libel is the case of John Peter Zenger in 1735. Zenger was hired to publish the New York Weekly Journal. When he...
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    enslaved and some free. The 1735 trial and acquittal in Manhattan of John Peter Zenger, who had been accused of seditious libel after criticizing colonial...
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  • grew up, eventually marrying a member of the same refugee group, John Peter Zenger. The couple married on 11 September 1722 in Manhattan's Dutch Reformed...
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    Figures in the Trial of John Peter Zenger", Famous Trials, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law "John Peter Zenger trial collection". archives...
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    previously seen. In 1735, John Peter Zenger was accused of seditious libel by the governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was found not guilty, largely...
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  • SS Peter Zenger was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after John Peter Zenger, a printer and journalist in...
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    American politician, signer of the Constitution of the United States John Peter Zenger (1697–1746), newspaper publisher whose libel trial helped establish...
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  • John Peter Zenger was arrested and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1734 after his newspaper criticized the colonial governor of New York. Zenger spent...
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    New York trial of John Peter Zenger for libel, when the Philadelphia attorney Andrew Hamilton was permitted to appear on Zenger's behalf. By 1876, the...
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    the free-press/free-speech movement (as in the 1735 trial against John Peter Zenger, which started with an anonymous essay). By the 1970s, editors had...
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  • Morton's high-living." A celebrated legal case in 1734–1735 involved John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper printer who regularly published material critical...
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  • by General James Oglethorpe. Where slavery was prohibited. 1735 – John Peter Zenger is found innocent of libel by the New York City trial on August 4...
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    London. The upper stories were used as a debtors' prison. In 1735, John Peter Zenger, an American newspaper publisher, was arrested for committing libel...
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  • weakened, but not abolished, in the 1735 New York case of Crown v. John Peter Zenger. Zenger had published attacks on Governor William Cosby that were well...
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    censorship Chilling effect Of Education John Peter Zenger Milton, John (1644). Areopagitica, A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing...
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    British Amateur Championship in 1926 Ed Ward, writer and music critic John Peter Zenger, defendant in a landmark legal case that laid the foundation for press...
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  • defense lawyer in the John Peter Zenger case of 1735, and brother of James Hamilton. William and Margaret had six children: John, Andrew, James, William...
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    percentage than in Philadelphia or Boston. The 1735 libel trial of John Peter Zenger in the city was a seminal influence on freedom of the press in North...
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  • "Account of Zenger Trial". Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Retrieved April 15, 2008. "German immigrant printer named John Peter Zenger" Judy Putnam...
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  • Māori was accused of a crime until it was abolished in 1961. In 1735, John Peter Zenger, a newspaper publisher, was arrested and tried for libel against the...
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  • Christopher Bates, who contributes to the site under the name Zenger, chosen in honor of John Peter Zenger. Their respective contributions are differentiated by...
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    which will not recur until 1979. August 16 (August 5 old style– John Peter Zenger of The New York Weekly Journal becomes a symbol of freedom of the...
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