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First Amendment Pardon: Comedian Lenny Bruce Pardoned 40 Years After Obscenity Conviction

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Comedian Lenny Bruce, who died in 1966 of a drug overdose, was convicted on an obscenity charge after a performance in New York two years earlier. We speak with First Amendment expert David Skover, author of The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.


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