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The Story That Couldn't Be Printed (1939)

The story of how foundation for freedom of the press was laid in America. Back in early colonial days a printer named John Peter Zanger exposed the rascality of an official who was misappropriating public funds. A friend of his , John Alexander,undertook to secure positive proof so that Zanger could print the facts .Zanger was jailed. At the trial, Andrew Hamilton, the great lawyer and statesman, walked into the courtroom and announced he was there to defend the prisoner. His plea was so eloquent that the jurors were swept off their feet and brought in the verdict of innocent, thus securing freedom of the press in America.

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John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Victor Kilian

John Peter Zenger (uncredited)

Naomi Childers

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Trooper (uncredited)

John Hubbard

Attorney John Alexander (uncredited)

Carl Stockdale

Hank (uncredited)

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