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1. John Peter Zenger was a German-American journalist and newspaper publisher who became famous for going to trial for libel charges after printing pieces that opposed the governor.
2. He was born on October 26th, 1697 in Impflingen, Germany to Johanna and Nicholaus Eberhard, a schoolteacher.
3. In 1710 John's family immigrated to New York, but his father died before settlement, and John subsequently apprenticed with William Bradford as a printer.
4. John Peter Zenger went on to start his own newspaper which resulted in charges and a trial for opposing the governor of New York.
5. John Peter Zenger apprenticed with William Bradford for eight years beginning in 1711, learning the printing trade. He was 14 years old when he began.
6. In 1722 John Peter White remarried to his second wife Anna Catharina Maul, in New York. Together they had a total of six children during their marriage.
7. John Peter Zenger worked with William Bradford for a while once back in New York, but in 1726 decided to start his own printing business.
8. John Peter Zenger started publishing his own newspaper the New York Weekly Journal in 1733, and was backed by many prominent people that opposed William Cosby.
9. In 1734 New York's Governor William Cosby had John Peter Zenger charged with criminal libel, but Zenger was acquitted by a grand jury.
10. John Peter Zenger's lawyers in the second trial were William Smith Sr., and Andrew Hamilton. The original lawyers Zenger hired to defend him were disbarred by the very government that Zenger had published the so-called 'libelous' articles about.
What if...?
I firmly believe that if Zenger hadn't fought for truth being a defense against libel, then someone else would have done so. Newspaper is a everyday thing for people now days. Without newspaper people who were unconnected to the internet, would not be able to stay up to date with the latest news. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. People rely on the newspaper mostly because they are in a unconnected state of mind with reading the news or watching the news on the internet. Peter Zenger saved many lives with going into the newspaper business.
