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William Hunter - Finding Free Speech: A British Soldier's Son Who Became an Early American
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In June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress political dissent.
Facing imminent personal risks, a gutsy Kentucky newspaper editor ran the first editorial denouncing the law's attempt to stifle the freedom of the press.
Almost immediately, government lawyers recommended his arrest and prosecution.
That editor was William Hunter, amazingly, the son of a British soldier.
During the American Revolution, he accompanied his father on a campaign to fi...