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How Free Press Can Protect Us

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Inside the First Amendment

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By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director

Two recent news items — an obituary about a U.S. Air Force officer and a newspaper column about a jailed Associated Press photographer — have a First Amendment connection that reaches across more than 50 years of U.S. history.

Milo Radulovich, an Air Force reservist caught up in the 1950s McCarthy era, died Nov. 19. Secret charges in 1953 against Radulovich…

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