For years, a photo of an alleged newspaper clipping with a purported transcription of an anti-Semitic speech by U.S. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin has circulated online. In June 2024 ...

Benjamin Franklin was sustained by just this kind ... Franklin’s second crucial kind of non-book printing was his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette. The Gazette became the most popular paper ...

A newspaper clipping accurately quotes antisemitic comments by Benjamin Franklin in 1787. Rating: Unfounded (About this ...

(Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin Franklin, then a humble Philadelphia printer ...