Fred Christopherson defends freedom of the press amid war during this 1942 speech. He acknowledges that it's "proper to control information of value to the enemy," but affirms that newspapers have "a grave and solemn duty" to report accurately.
Collection Description
This is part of the larger Fred C. and J. Marie Christopherson Papers available at the Center for Western Studies. Fred and Marie Christopherson were both prominent Sioux Falls journalists and personalities. Fred served as the editor of the Argus Leader and Marie had a WWII column entitled "Driftwood". The collection includes financial records, correspondence, news clippings, photographs, medical records, speeches, maps, audio tapes, social records, account journals, and scrapbooks.
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