Word: telegram
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...there is reported a denial by you that your organization had exerted any pressure on the Film Society leading to the last-minute cancellation of the film. I was very pleased to see this and should hope that your organization is now taking a more enlightened view after the telegram of May 21, 1948, sent to the Boston Film Society, in which you called the showing "objectionable" and in which you held the Society "responsible for any repercussions...
Commenting on the fact that Crocker had posted a telegram from the NAACP as an explanation to patrons of the controversial film's cancellation, NAACP president Lionel Lindsay said, "I don't know who engineered this telegram, but we had no knowledge of Friday's showing." Lindsay is sending a letter criticizing Crocker's action to Associate Dean Robert B. Watson...
...date on the telegram, which implied a threat to picket the film, was May 28, 1948. The date was obscured by a large black arrow pointing to the text. Crocker said he used the outdated telegram "because the NAACP had protested before, and we wanted to convince people there was a strong feeling against the film...
...sign in Fogg Museum, where the controversial film was to have been shown, told over 250 disappointed students it was "the better part of wisdom" to yield to the demands of the Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Beside the note was a telegram from the NAACP, calling the showing "actionable," and saying the Society would be held "responsible for any repercussions." The telegram was sent...
...date was blocked by a large black arrow pointing to the text of the telegram. Many of the disappointed students complained about "irresponsible minority groups' 'and "trumped-up racial issues...