Censorship.

  • Bill of Rights week: libraries and censorship (Episode 2 of 6)

    This is the second episode in the Bill of Rights Week series, derived from PZ0047 Bill of Rights Radio Education Project. The topic of this episode is libraries and censorship. Guests include Kurt Vonnegut and Phyllis Schlafly. Executive producer is Adi Gevins, with assistance from Ginna Allison and David Rapkin, and with thanks to producer…

  • Shotgunning the media / produced by Wendy Sisson.

    Examination of government control of the media under the Nixon administration.

  • Obscenity and censorship.

    Question and answer session following the lecture series.

  • Jehovah’s child : the case of Deena Metzger

    Excerpts from a press conference that was held on Wednesday, September 17, 1969 concerning the case Deena Metzger and Leslie Hoag, both teachers at Los Angeles Valley College. Both women were suspended from their teaching jobs for assigning Metzger’s poem “Jehovah’s Child,” which was deemed obscene by the junior college’s Board of Trustees, to their…

  • The Right to know / Dr. Avrum Stroll.

    On the implications of censorship for a free government.

  • Culbert Olson on free thought and censorship.

    Former California Governor talks on the threat of government censorship.|CULBERT OLSON ON FREE THOUGHT AND CENSORSHIP. – Former California Governor, Olson talks on the threat of government censorship to personal freedoms and the political health of the country. – RECORDED: 27 Apr. 1960. BROADCAST: KPFK, 15 Sept. 1960.

  • Kenneth Rexroth on censorship.

    Speech on the threat to a free society posed by censorship of books.|KENNETH REXROTH ON CENSORSHIP. – Speech on the threat to a free society posed by censorship of books. – BROADCAST: KPFA, 28 Mar. 1957.

  • Behind the badge : the humanities and criminal justice produced by Jane Garabedian.

    Series explores contemporary issues in criminal justice and focuses on the relevance of education to the conduct of criminal justice. |r.1. The relevance of the humanities. — r.2. Culture and anarchy. — r.3. Justice and the Hispanic community. — r.4. Obscenity. — r.5. Obscenity : legal aspects of censorship. — r.6. Victimless crime : sexual…

  • Public libraries and the first amendment (Episode 13 of 13)

    This is the last in a series of 13 episodes. This program contains interviews and debates with attorneys, writers, and academics which convey the controversy over the question of censorship and public libraries. Sponsored by the Pacifica Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, with funding from the Deer Creek Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri;…

  • American Writers Congress.

    A conference on writing, publishing, and censorship. Program moderated by Chris Koch and Richard Elman. |r.1. David Black, Ethelbert Miller, Valerie Minor, Leslie Gorse. Victor Navasky and Michael Ferris on censorship (56 min.). — r.2. Jules Feiffer, Ring Lardner, Jr., Gloria Steinem, Jose Iglesia, June Jordan (85 min.). — r.3. Ishamel Reed (30 min.).