The Impact Media has During War

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The Impact Media has During War

“Spanish-American War of 1898”

It was late in the evening and the battleship the Maine drifted calmly through the water of Havana to “protect Americas interests” stated be Fitzhugh Lee. Everything seemed to be looking bright with a new Spanish ruler in Cuba. Even many of the officers were entertained by the Spanish and thoughts of going home were in the air. The small battleship was second-class to that of its counterparts in the Pacific. It was the biggest battleship to enter the Havana harbor. As soon as the calm night appeared, roaring explosions and blinding flashes filled the air. Could the battleship Maine be under attack while on such great terms? Captain Sigsbee as he was writing a letter to his wife remembered everything. Captain Sigsbee said,

“I laid down my pen and listened to the notes of the bugle, which were singularly beautiful in the oppressive stillness of the night. . . . I was enclosing my letter in its envelope when the explosion came. It was a bursting, rending, and crashing roar of immense volume, largely metallic in character. It was followed by heavy, ominous metallic sounds. There was a trembling and lurching motion of the vessel, a list to port. The electric lights went out. Then there was intense blackness and smoke.

The situation could not be mistaken. The Maine was blown up and sinking. For a moment the instinct of self-preservation took charge of me, but this was immediately dominated by the habit of command.” (1)

Sigsbee climbed to the deck of the ship to see it sinking into the ocean. He had to abandon ship. The wreckage of the ship floated days after this all happened.

Investigations of this incident took place by both the Spanish and the ...

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... Relations in 1898.”

http://www.humboldt.edu/~jcb10/spanwar.shtml

2. Dewan, George. “Rough Riders Return.” http://www.lihistory.com/6/hs623a.htm

3. Lichauco, Marcial P. and Storey Moorfield. “The Conquest of the Philippines by the

United States, 1898-1925” 274 pgs

4. “Joseph Pulitzer.” http://www.literature-awards.com/joseph_pulitzer.htm

5. “Remember the Maine.” C. 2000 http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/remember.html

6. Rosenfeld, Harvey. “Diary of a Dirty Little War: The Spanish-American War of 1898”

210 pgs.

7. Wilkerson, Marcus. “Public Opinion and the Spanish-American War: A Study in War

Propaganda.” 146 pgs.

8. “William Randolph Hearst.” http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/willh.html

9. Yahoo References. “Yellow Journalism.” http://education.yahoo.com/search/be?

lb=t&p=url%3Ay/yellow_journalism

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