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Jackson, Andrew. ["Seventh Annual Message to Congress, 7 December 1835"]. In James D. Richardson, ed. Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. 2, New York, Bureau of National Literature, 1907, pp. 1394-95. J1
Recommendation for the passage of legislation to "prohibit circulation in the Southern States, through the mail, of incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." A contemporary illustration (opp. p. 1394) shows the robbing of the United States mails in Charleston, S.C., in order to burn abolitionist literature. Correspondence between Postmaster General Amos Kendall and President Jackson concerning the suppression of abolitionist papers appears in Correspondence of Andrew Jackson ed., John S. Bassett, vol. 5, 1931, pp. 359-61. Letters concerning the issue from Postmaster General Kendall to Petersburg, Va., and New York postmasters are published in Niles' Register, 49(1, 250):8-9, 5 September 1835.
Jacobson, Dan. "An End to Pornography?" Commentary, 42(5):76-82, November 1966. J2
An essay on pornography revolving around a favorable review of Steven Marcus' The Other Victorians.
Jacobson, David L., ed. The English Libertarian Heritage from the Writings of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in The Independent Whig and Cato's Letters. Indianapolis, Bobbs- Merrill, 1965. 284p. (American Heritage Series) J3
The first American edition of Cato's Letters, the work of two eighteenth- century Englishmen, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, whose thoughts on freedom of the press were widely read and quoted in both England and America but have only recently been "rediscovered." Also reprinted are selections from Trenchard and Gordon's The Independent Whig and an extensive introduction dealing with the careers of the two authors, their philosophy, and their impact on American thought. The editor also provides a publishing history of Cato's Letters and The Independent Whig.
"Jacqueline B. Kennedy, Plaintiff" Newsweek, 68(26):39-43, 26 December 1966. J4
An account of the controversy over the publication of William Manchester's The Death of a President and the efforts of Mrs. Kennedy to block publication of the book which she had asked the author to write.
Jaffe, Louis L. "Trial by Newspapers." New York University Law Review, 40:504-24, May 1965. J5
The author concludes that the canons of ethics should be amended to forbid attorneys and police from communicating information except in performance of their duties bearing upon guilt or innoncence of accused, and that it be made a crime to publish such information during the course of the trial unless it has been admitted into evidence.
Jameson, John. "Colorado Courts Extend the First Amendment to the Camera." Quill, 44(4):7-8, 14 April 1956. J6
Following a hearing the Colorado Supreme Court ruled out Canon 35 in Colorado courts.
Janeway, Elizabeth. "`The Toad Beneath the Harrow Knows . . .'" Library Journal, 91:887-91, 15 February 1966. J7
An author discusses some aspects of copyright revision, and the potential impact upon writers of the technological revolution that is taking place in publishing and library service.
[Jefferson, Thomas1. "The Special Case of Thomas Jefferson." In Leonard W. Levy, Freedom of the Press from Zenger to Jefferson. Indianapolis, Bobbs- Merrill, 1966, pp. 327-76. J8
Levy considers Jefferson more of a democrat than a libertarian and his comments on the subject more felicitous than profound. Jefferson's thoughts and actions on freedom of the press "revealed ambiguity and tension, contradictions and conflict, as the following documents will show." Included are: the Virginia Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, draft of the Virginia Constitution (1783), letters to Edward Carrington, James Madison, Noah Webster, Samuel Smith, Elbridge Gerry, Benjamin Rush, Levi Lincoln, Monsieur Pictet, John Tyler, Thomas McKean, Abigail Adams, Thomas Seymour, John Norvell, Walter Jones, N. G. Dufief, and Adamantios Coray, the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and excerpts from Jefferson's inaugural addresses.
Jenkins, Dan. "A Trial That Has the South Seething." Sports Illustrated, 19(6):18-21, 5 August 1963. J9
"Published charges [Saturday Evening Post] of a college football fix will be challenged in court next week when ex- Georgia Coach Wally Butts confronts accuser George Burnett in a case nearly as decisive as the 1925 monkey trial." Wally Butts v. Curtis Publishing Co. A sketch of the courtroom scene appears in the 19 August issue; the verdict ($3,060,000 to Butts) is reported in the 2 September issue.
Jennings, W. Ivor. The Sedition Bill Explained by W. Ivor Jennings . . . With a Preface by J. B. Priestly. London, New Statesman and Nation, 1934, 31p. J10
"If there is any case for freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and the sanctity of the home, there is a strong and indeed overwhelming case for inducing the Government to withdraw this Bill." Under the hill, the author notes, printers would be held responsible for the opinions they put into print and might expect to have their shops raided by the police.
Jennison, Peter S. "National Service Organization Proposes a Nationwide Survey." ALA Bulletin, 59:89-90, February 1965. (Discussion, 59:239, April 1965) J11
The director of National Library Week rejects a proposal from a national service organization that National Library Week he used as a focal point for a nationwide survey of newsstands and libraries to uncover questionable books.
Jensen, Jay W. "Freedom of the Press: A Concept in Search of a Philosophy." In Marquette University, College of Journalism. Social Responsibility of the Newspress. [Milwaukee, The College,1962], pp. 71-88. J12
"What is most urgently required for the rehabilitation of the concept of freedom of the press is a new metaphysics - a metaphysics that will restore what Positivism, Romanticism, Collectivism, and other derivative isms have lately destroyed: an image of the self as ontologically independent of Culture and existentially related to an objective order of values."
-------. William Cobbett: John Bull as Journalist and Defender of Press Freedom. Iowa City, Iowa, Association for Education in Journalism, 1966. 18p. mimeo. (Presented at convention of the As sociation, University of Iowa) J13
Cobbett was not one to theorize on press freedom but asserted his principles when his own freedom or that of others was being threatened.
Jensen, Oliver. "Filial Piety and the First Amendment." American Heritage, 18(6):2-4, October 1967. J14
The editor of American Heritage discusses the case of Frick v. Stevens. The magazine is a member of an ad hoc committee "to fight this and any other infringement of the constitutional rights of historians to publish freely."
Johnson, Lawrence K. "The Limits of Political Speech: New York Times v. Sulivan Revisited." UCLA Law Review, 14:631-52, January 1967. J15
Comments on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). The author suggests areas for expansion of the New York Times rule to promote communication of values vital to a free society.
Johnson, Miles B. The Government Secrecy Controversy; a Dispute involving the Government and the Press in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations. New York, Vantage, 1967. 136p. J16
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. On Iniquity, Some Personal Reflections Arising Out of the Moors Murder Trial. London, Macmillan, 1967. 142p. J17
A discussion of the power of literature to deprave and corrupt. While concerned with the "near- license" in sex expression that exists, she is reluctant to recommend any extension or relaxation of present censorship until effects of "total license" have had a serious public examination. Kenneth Allsop criticizes Miss Johnson's views in the July 1967 issue of Encounter.
-------. "We Need More Censorship." Saturday Evening Post, 240:8, 10, 14 January 1967. J18
"Total license in the arts at best engenders boredom and produces a kind of ghastly sameness; at worst it produces a combination of sex and sadism. . . . A sensibility blunted by cruelty in art will become blunted to it in life." The author objects particularly to the presentation of cruelty for the purpose of kicks. While opposed to police censorship, she suggests for the theater "a small censoring body which could, with wisdom, apply an initial check" and "a powerful Court of Appeals, consisting of open- minded persons, preferably attached to learned institutions." There is no evidence that complete freedom from censorship will produce great art but considerable evidence that great works of art and literature were produced during periods when some censorship prevailed.
Johnson, Pyke, Jr. "Censorship, Critical Thinking, and the Paperback." Library Journal, 90:296-301, 15 January1965. J19
A paperback publisher discusses censorship of children's books, emphasizing the need to expand the scope of the child's reading. He cites a stement in defense of The Catcher in the Rye by the Hamden, Conn., Public Library. He notes the vulnerability of paperbacks to the censor because their low price makes them more likely to fall into the hands of children.
Jones, Bill R. "Defamation of a Public Official in Texas." Baylor Law Review, 18:583- 605, Fall 1966. J20
The current status of the law in Texas concerning the recovery of damages by a public official for libelous newspaper articles relating to his official conduct, in light of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision.
Jones, D. A. N., Peter Fryer, and C. II. Rolph [pseud. for C. R. Hewitt]. "The Trouble with Censorship." New Statesman, 72:912-13, 16 December 1966. J21
Three writers comment separately on the present state of affairs on obscenity censorship in Britain, including the case against The Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Jones, Nancy. Press Codes, American and Foreign. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1966. 6p. (Publication no. 160) J22
A review of codes of ethics of American news organizations in relation to press codes and press councils abroad.
Jones, Penry. "Important Moral Issues: The Censorship of Books, Radio and Television." Expository Times, 75:333-37, August 1964. J23
Joseph, Helen. "Letter from Captivity." Atlas, 7:138-41, March 1964. J24
"Helen Joseph is a victim of South Africa's earlier censorship laws. In this article she predicts that the new law will completely suppress all opinion - in politics as well as in the arts - displeasing to the government. In 1962 Miss Joseph was sentenced to five years' house arrest. From her confinement she managed to forward the manuscript [of this article] to the Australian weekly [Nation] in which it appeared."
Journal of Broadcasting. Los Angeles, Association for Professional Broadcasting Education, 1956-date. Quarterly. J25
Issues frequently carry articles dealing with aspects offreedom and controls in broadcasting. Also a source of information on new books and articles.
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