Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident

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Beliefs and thought

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On May 26, 2005, an unregistered editor created a hoax article on the English Wikipedia about journalist John Seigenthaler. The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had been a suspect in the assassinations of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy.

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