The Daily Heller: Trials in the Land of OZ Redux
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Steven Heller
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PRINT MagazineThe Daily Heller: Trials in the Land of OZ Reduxprintmag.comThe vice squads and obscenity courts were working overtime in the late ’60s and early ’70s. I recall them well, being one of the rebels who was hauled off to jail and court for publishing an underground newspaper called The New York Review of Sex and Politics. As much of a legal ordeal as I endured (and won), little could compare with the tribulations in 1971 of what Tony Palmer called “the longest obscenity trial in history.” It was the ordeal that Richard Neville and his co The post The Daily Heller: Trials in the Land of OZ Redux appeared first on PRINT Magazine .
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