In Fact Archives

I found the complete collections of In Fact and am currently in the process of archiving them at Archive.org. So far the first eight issues are available.

George Seldes on Archive.org

Archive.org was a natural place to send these articles because I learned quite a bit about George from videos and books that were available at the archive.

In Fact was Seldes' independent newsletter which he edited. The paper ran from 1940 until 1950 when the Red Scare and McCarthyism swept the country and many of his subscribers were forced to drop. In Fact covered press censorship, corruption, Fascism and all the news that the rest of the press refused to cover. His newsletter became a popular outlet for other journalists who could not get articles published. He was one of the few people to report on the link between cancer and cigarettes, and also the fact that most newspapers refused to print such articles out of fear of offending tobacco advertisers. The paper also printed articles by George Polk, who was murdered by the Fascist regime in Greece. In Fact stated shortly after that Polk believed someone would be killed by the Fascists, but this would not be widely acknowledged until the 1970's.