Sapiro Lawsuit Forces Ford's Apology

In 1924, industrialist Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent newspaper accused a Jewish cooperative named Sapiro of exploiting farmers and claimed that agricultural cooperatives served as fronts for a Jewish conspiracy to monopolize American agriculture. Sapiro sued Ford for libel in Detroit, and the 1927 trial ended in a mistrial after Ford's representatives approached a juror. The parties later settled, Ford paid Sapiro's legal fees, and Ford issued a public retraction and apology to Jewish people. Ford subsequently stopped publishing the Dearborn Independent.

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