The Freedom of Information Act was signed into law under the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson. I was in high school and remember seeing the historic signing of this on the steps of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. (I was later to become a journalism student there.)
This Act allows individuals or companies to challenge the government regarding documents it holds and considers classified. Many important news stories were broken by journalists and their attorneys using this Act.
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