Cartoonist Walt Partymiller reflected J.W. Gitt’s views throughout the Cold War. Also of interest: Reflecting on J.W. Gitt’s Gazette and Daily in York, Pa. From 1915-1970, J.W. Gitt was a…
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…J.W. Gitt. Mary Allienne Hamilton uncovered some news in her recently published biography on J.W. Gitt, long-time owner of The Gazette and Daily. That the left-leaning York newspaper owner from…
York newspaper publisher J.W. Gitt earned a widespread reputation for his endorsement of Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in the 1948 presidential election. Artist Walt Partymiller put Gitt’s liberal political…
…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…
…with that label 23 years after Gitt’s death. Mary Allienne Hamilton, a scholar of Gitt’s thought and life, said that Gitt resigned from the Progressives because he feared communist domination…
…Reflecting on J.W. Gitt’s Gazette and Daily and journalism in York, Pa. J.W. Gitt consistently pointed to the founding date of his newspaper, The Gazette and Daily, at 1795. That…
…was none other than J.W. Gitt. (To order Mary’s book, see www.yorkheritage.org.) J.W. Gitt plays a round at Hanover Country Club at age 88. Gitt helped found the country club….
A visit to J.W. Gitt’s former mansion overlooking Hanover last week said much about the longtime owner of the Gazette and Daily. There was a putting green near the house,…
I was working on a chronology for Mary Alliene Hamilton’s biography of longtime newspaper owner J.W. Gitt when I dealt with an inconsistency for the 100th time. Gitt consistently dated…
…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…