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Tony Lyons: “They [major newspapers] were obviously getting pressure from…”

Featuring: Tony Lyons, President and Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing | New York

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The Banned Book That Big Government Doesn't Want You to Read | Tony Lyons

Published | Video Starts at 00:47

So they changed their whole policy that they had described to me clearly beforehand and just would not place it. So They [major newspapers] were obviously getting pressure from the government not to be involved in any way. So the only thing that all the major newspapers were willing to do at the time was to run hit pieces against Robert F. (00:47–03:48)

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