The FBI checked in on York (Pa.) Gazette and Daily editor James Higgins for years after his work showed sympathy for Cuba and Fidel Castro. Background posts: York cartoonist's work helps celebrate peace activism, J.W. Gitt: 'Just say it ... straight out' and Old York newspaper won't die or fade away.
For decades, people tried to tie J.W. Gitt's Gazette and Daily to the Communist Party or some revolutionary cause... .
Barry Goldwater, right, and his veep candidate William Miller took extreme positions that did not set well with York County voters in 1964. York countians backed Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by a 57,366 to 32,846 vote. Goldwater's politics didn't set well with Gazette and Daily owner J.W. Gitt either. He refused the Republican's advertising. The image above comes the York County Goldwater campaign's letterhead. Background posts: A Newspaper afraid ...; Newspaper's founding date hard to pin down and McCarthy probe could not corral J.W. Gitt.
Republicans blasted J.W. Gitt, maverick owner of The Gazette and Daily, for his decision to ban advertising for Barry Goldwater in 1964.
He caught it from the same local ACLU branch that had honored him in 1956.
Some of his staff was critical.
And Mary Hamilton, author of the recently published Gitt biography "Rising from the Wilderness," writes that the longtime newspaperman's family thought he should accept the advertising... .
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