Fifty years ago, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was not obscene.

AuthorOliver, Charles
PositionBrief article

Fifty years ago, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was not obscene. To celebrate that anniversary a Pacifica radio station in New York posted a reading of the poem online. Why not broadcast the reading? Because the station fears the...

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