Person
Aaron Sapiro
Lawyer who organised farmers’ marketing co-operatives. The Dearborn Independent falsely accused him of a conspiracy; he sued Henry Ford for libel in 1925.
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See Sapiro v. Ford.
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involved in
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The Independent’s campaign against Aaron Sapiro
its target
Scholarship & press
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The paper’s charge was false: Sapiro’s suit listed 141 libellous statements in it.
- Sapiro v. Ford plaintiff Scholarship & press 12
Proof 2 sources
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Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
The articles repeatedly claimed that Sapiro was part of a larger Jewish conspiracy to control American farmers.
Sapiro’s libel lawsuit included 21 counts against Ford and cataloged 141 libelous statements in The Dearborn Independent.
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Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism, JSTOR Daily.
Scholarship & press
a lawyer named Aaron Sapiro, who was known for setting up agricultural cooperatives, sued Ford for defamation in 1925.
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