Legacy Lecture | How Marshall Mobilized G.I. Journalists to Help Win WWII

In 1942, Army Chief of Staff George Marshall revitalized the Army’s tradition of unit-based newspapers with the distribution of field kits “brimming with printing gear,” including mimeograph machines, on which the mostly novice journalists cranked out their news sheets. At a time when the press around the world was censored (even American newspapers were corralled by the U.S. government into a voluntary program of “self-regulation”), troop journalists on the Western front counterpunched against Nazi propaganda and kept soldiers well-informed.
Molly Guptill Manning is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School, where she teaches Legal Practice, Civil Procedure, and Professional Responsibility.
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