Students Fight Sedition Charges from 1919 [8min]
Law students at the University of Montana are trying to clear the names of 74 Montanans convicted of sedition in 1918 and 1919. The journalism professor heading the project and a law student writing the clemency petitions discuss the effort. Guests: Clemens Work, University of Montana Professor of Journalism and author of the new book Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West; and Katie Olson, Law Student at the University of Montana.
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