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John Peter Zenger was the printer of the New York Weekly Journal, charged of seditious libel by the corrupt royal Governor Cosby for printing in his newspapers the crimes and corruptions of the Governor, although they were the truth. The jury judged him to be not guilty, and this was the landmark of freedom of the press for America.

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