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The New York Times Company
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The New York Times - The Craziest Founder a Story
On july thirteenth, eighteen sixty three, the civil war's been going on for two years. There wasn't a draft for the army yet. And theye 're actually draft riots in new york city about this. The mobs target the newspapers that are sort of the mouthpieces of lincoln and the republican party through the war. So a mob descends on the new york times headquarters building. henry raymond gets the war department to ship a bunch of rifles and two gatling guns ton to the times cause they know this is good happen. He gives the order that if any of the mob tries to break into the building, you're to fire at
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