In July 1926, in Canton, Ohio, Don R. Mellett, young editor of James M. Cox's Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly...
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