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The Gentlemen of the Press
Can we really believe those newspaper reports about Jack The Ripper?
Annie Chapman鈥檚 murder sparked fears that a crazed killer was on the loose in London, prompting the burgeoning newspaper industry to flood Whitechapel with reporters. Those journalists wrote the first draft of Jack the Ripper鈥檚 history, and much of it survives in the story we tell today. But can we really believe those newspaper reports?
