... such as William Randolph Hearst misinformed the public with sensationalized and sometimes false stories about the brutality of the Spaniards, while portraying nationalist leaders such as Emilio Aguinaldo of The Philippines and Jose Marti of Cuba as freedom fighters not unlike George Washington and other patriots of the Revolutionary War. Such newspapers also heartily accepted the conspiracy theory that it was a ... take action. Finally, McKinley bowed to public pressure and submitted a declaration of war against Cuba to the Congress on April 11th, 1898 with the intention of "liberating" ...

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