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unusual facts about James Gordon Bennett, Sr.


Penny press

James Gordon Bennett's 1835 New York Herald added another dimension to penny press newspapers, now common in journalistic practice.


Allen Young

Sir Allen Young planned another expedition in Pandora in 1878, but was induced by a sponsor James Gordon Bennett, Jr. to sell the vessel to him.

Commercial Cable Company

The Commercial Cable Company was founded in the United States in 1884 by John William Mackay and James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Their motivation was to break the then virtual monopoly of Jay Gould on transatlantic telegraphy and bring down prices (particularly for Bennett's newspaper empire).

Frederick Arthur Bridgman

His large and important composition, The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile, in the Paris Salon (1877), bought by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., brought him the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Gordon Bennett Cup

There were four Gordon Bennett Cups, all established by James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne

This was the most prestigious event of the meeting, and was a competition between national teams, sponsored by Gordon Bennett, the publisher of the New York Herald and was being held for the first time.

James Gordon Bennett, Sr.

Bennett's account of the Helen Jewett murder in the Herald was selected by The Library of America for inclusion in the 2008 anthology True Crime.

In 1839, Bennett was granted the first ever exclusive interview to a United States President, Martin Van Buren.


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