The 'Fresno Four' turn 40 Legendary newspaperman remembers jail stint.

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    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States. Constitution. 1st Amendment
    • Subject Terms:
      FRESNO Bee, The (Newspaper)
    • Subject Terms:
      GRUNER, George
    • Abstract:
      The article recounts the incarceration of George Gruner, managing editor of the "Fresno Bee" newspaper, in the Fresno County jail in California on September 1976. Gruner and his fellow staffers were arrested after they made headlines about connections of a city councilman to the garbage business originated from Los Angeles into Fresno. They invoked the media shield law and First Amendment to decline the charges against them.