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Incidents: secrets and espionage laws, head of government Franklin D. Roosevelt
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ContinentNorth America
StagePressure 1
OutcomeSustained 1
LevelNational 1
Head of governmentFranklin D. Roosevelt
United States creates an Office of Censorship and a wartime code for the press
Twelve days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Office of Censorship. Its director, Byron Price, a former Associated Press editor, wrote a Code of Wartime Practices asking newspapers and broadcasters…
Prior restraint · Stage Pressure · Head of government Franklin D. Roosevelt · Sustained
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