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Deadly censorship : murder, honor, and freedom of the press / James Lowell Underwood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611173000
  • 9781299964747
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF224 .D433 2013
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Contents:
Pretrial maneuvers -- The first round of the trial -- The prosecution case -- The defense case -- Tillman's testimony -- The closing arguments -- The verdict -- Notes.
Subject: On January 15, 1903, South Carolina lieutenant governor James H. Tillman shot and killed Narciso G. Gonzales, editor of South Carolina's most powerful newspaper, the State. Blaming Gonzales's stinging editorials for his loss of the 1902 gubernatorial race, Tillman shot Gonzales to avenge the defeat and redeem his "honor" and his reputation as a man who took action in the face of an insult. James Lowell Underwood investigates the epic murder trial of Tillman to test whether biting editorials were a legitimate exercise of freedom of the press or an abuse that justified killing when camouflaged as self-defense. This clash --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

An editor is censored -- Pretrial maneuvers -- The first round of the trial -- The prosecution case -- The defense case -- Tillman's testimony -- The closing arguments -- The verdict -- Notes.

On January 15, 1903, South Carolina lieutenant governor James H. Tillman shot and killed Narciso G. Gonzales, editor of South Carolina's most powerful newspaper, the State. Blaming Gonzales's stinging editorials for his loss of the 1902 gubernatorial race, Tillman shot Gonzales to avenge the defeat and redeem his "honor" and his reputation as a man who took action in the face of an insult. James Lowell Underwood investigates the epic murder trial of Tillman to test whether biting editorials were a legitimate exercise of freedom of the press or an abuse that justified killing when camouflaged as self-defense. This clash --

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