San Francisco Examiner is a U.S. daily newspaper. It has been published continuously in San Francisco, California, since the late 19th century.
The beginning of the Examiner is a topic of some controversy. The date for its start is often given as 1865, but former Examiner columnist P.J. Corkery has written that its first issue was actually printed on October 20, 1863, under the name The Daily Democratic Press but that on June 12, 1865, the same n...
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San Francisco Examiner is a U.S. daily newspaper. It has been published continuously in San Francisco, California, since the late 19th century.
The beginning of the Examiner is a topic of some controversy. The date for its start is often given as 1865, but former Examiner columnist P.J. Corkery has written that its first issue was actually printed on October 20, 1863, under the name The Daily Democratic Press but that on June 12, 1865, the same newspaper "began to appear on the streets as The Examiner." The reason, he said, was the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865.
When word of Lincoln’s assassination reached San Francisco, angry citizens stormed the offices of the newspaper that would become The Examiner, wrecked it and set fire to it, as the Daily Democratic Press had been a pro-Confederacy, pro-slavery newspaper. The citizens of San Francisco, outraged that Southern sympathizers had murdered Lincoln, sought to kill the paper and the editors. The proprietors,...
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