Claim
Claim 964
Roosevelt initiated the libel prosecutions against Pulitzer and other publishers over stories alleging he had profited from the Panama Canal purchase while president.
- Statement
- Roosevelt initiated the libel prosecutions against Pulitzer and other publishers over stories alleging he had profited from the Panama Canal purchase while president.
- Field
- stated_justification
- Value
- Roosevelt initiated the prosecutions over Panama Canal profit claims
- Publisher
- The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-26
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
- Source date
- 2023-07-30
Quotation from the source
Theodore Roosevelt initiated libel prosecutions against Joseph Pulitzer and the other publishers of newspaper stories that had alleged that, while serving as president, he had profited from the sale of the Panama Canal.