John Belushi

The following information is taken from Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press' "Paying the Price: A recent census of reporters jailed or fined for refusing to testify" and from the First Amendment Center's "Jailed & subpoenaed journalists — a historical timeline."•           1917, Robert E. Holliway of the St. Louis Republic was jailed for contempt of court after refusing to reveal the sources for his story, &quot7 True Bills are Voted in Coal Inquiry,&quot in which he reported that a grand jury returned seven previously unannounced indictments in an investigation of the coal industry.•           1936, Martin Mooney, a reporter for the New York American, was called as a witness before a grand jury probing alleged violations of gambling and lottery laws after he wrote an article saying the grand jury's investigations into these charges were ineffective. After refusing to answer questions and furnish the names and addresses of his sources on the grounds that they were confidential...

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