Word: antismut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the widespread resentment against the liberal Warren Court is based on its decision striking down various forms of censorship. The Citizens for Decent Literature, biggest of a number of antismut organizations that have sprung up around the country, has pledged itself to appear on the prosecution side in every pornography case that comes before the Supreme Court. At present, no fewer than 135 anti-pornography bills are under study by the House Judiciary Committee. Last year Lyndon Johnson appointed leading educators, sociologists, psychologists and lawyers to a presidential commission on obscenity and pornography. Its interim report...
Whether or not Klor's films were really obscene, said the court, the California antismut law does not forbid "mere preparation of obscene materials." Instead, it penalizes "dissemination or intended dissemination." Not only had the prosecution failed to prove that Klor intended to distribute his unedited films in their allegedly obscene form, but worse, said the State Supreme Court, the trial judge had misconstrued the law and wrongly "communicated to the jury the idea that it need not find 'an intention to distribute' if it concluded that defendant had prepared the materials...