Telling truth to power in the '60s
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article recounts Henry James Korn’s account of a 1960s dispute over The News-Letter’s satire, his suspension and the later student-council decision on funding and editorial independence.
- The article says Milton Eisenhower objected to a satire criticizing President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Kennedy assassination cover-up, and Korn and his co-editor were suspended pending investigation.
- The paper reported that newspapers and wire services covered the suspension; according to Lou Panos, Eisenhower said the paper was subsidized when asked about press freedom.
- The article says a hearing took place in Shriver Hall and that Eisenhower made reinstatement conditional on a public apology.
- The reporter writes that Korn apologized at a press event, while the student council later affirmed university funding and editorial independence after the budget issue was referred to it.