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hundreds of readers came forward and volunteered their assistance. It also generated numerous other stories—presenting our side of the case.

and the people urging criminal prosecution were Harvard students. The people who these students wanted to see prosecuted were other students

” one complained. “We shouldn’t have to be subjected to abuse and degradation right in our own living room.”

Gloria Steinem had written an article in Ms. magazine about Deep Throat and the exploitation of its female lead

but against lawyers who represented them on First Amendment grounds. When I and several friends opened a Kosher deli in Harvard Square

then it seems to me that you can’t be in favor of a boycott against stores that sell Playboy and Penthouse

and the issue was achieving some notoriety in the media. I had

who had repeatedly won reelection on an uncompromising law-and-order platform. When he learned that the twin evils of obscenity and Harvard might merge on that fateful night

the District Attorney decided to arrest Stork and Hagen. The Deep Throat case was so important to Droney that he pulled one state detective off a murder investigation to watch the film and make the arrest.

the government should get out of the business of censoring films and other media.

and then passively held on to. The battle for civil liberties

and I observed at close range the ravages of war on our freedoms at home.

the lead defense lawyer—William Kunstler—was held in contempt of court and sentenced to four years imprisonment. I was part of the legal team assembled to prepare the appeal of that contempt order. We won.

vet it for names and other life-threatening information which in his journalistic judgment should not be published (for example

there would be few left. The New York Times and its publishers