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Oaks, Dallin H. "Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor." Utah Law Review, 9:862-63, Winter 1965. O1
An account and interpretation of the suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
by the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, which was the first in a series of events that lead directly to the murder of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith.
O'Brien, Francis W. "Movie Censorship: A Swiss Comparison." Duke Law Journal, 1966:633-68, Summer 1966. O2
An examination of the approach to movie censorship under Swiss laws as compared with American. The Swiss Tribunal Federal exercises minimum restraint in judging acts by the cantons to censor movies, believing that local conditions and community standards ought to determine what restrictions are to be imposed.
O'Brien, William V. "International Propaganda and Minimum World Public Order." Law and Contemporary Problems, 31:589-600, Summer 1966. O3
The author's contention is that "meaningful legal regulation of international propaganda is so difficult at best and so inconceivable in the present divided world, that international law is not well served by encouraging the belief among its supporters that substantial progress in this problem area is imminent."
"Obscenity and Minors: Another Attempt." Albany Law Review, 30:133-44, January 1966. O4
The problems of drafting a New York law controlling dissemination of obscene materials to minors, in light of the 1964 court decision in People v. Bookcase, Inc., 14 N.Y. 2d 409.
O'Casaide, Seamus. "Watty Cox and his Publications." In Bibliographical Society of Ireland. Publications, 7(2):17-38, 1935. O5
For seditious libel in his Irish Magazine (1807-15) Walter (Watty) Cox was harassed in various ways, pilloried, and repeatedly fined and imprisoned. After spending more than three years in prison, where he continued to publish his paper, Cox accepted a government pension on condition that he leave the country. He spent some years in New York, but eventually returned to Ireland. The issue of Irish Magazine for April 1811 contains an engraving of Watty Cox on the pillory "for a wicked and seditious libel."
[O'Connell, Daniel, et al.]. A Special Report of the Proceedings in the case of the Queen against Daniel O'Connell [et al.] in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, Michaelmas term, 1843, and Hilary term, 1844; on an Indictment for Conspiracy and Misdemeanour. Edited by John Flanedy. Dublin, James Duffy, 1844. 484p. O6
O'Connell, a Catholic member of Parliament, was brought to trial along with eight others on charge of creating disaffection among the people for published speeches made in behalf of repeal of the union of Great Britain and Ireland. He was imprisoned for a time, but released by the House of Lords.
Oettinger, Elmer R., et al. "Press Court Reporting Seminar." Popular Government, 30(56):1-28+, February-March 1964. O7
Contents: Free Press Can Guarantee Better Government by Judge Hamilton H. Habgood, Free Press and Fair Trial Are Not Incompatible by Sam Ragan, Press Freedom Is Not Absolute by John W. Scott, Libel- Qualified Privilege of Reporting Judicial Proceedings by William Lassiter, The Press and the Defendant by James R. Nance, John B. Adams, and Charles Hauser, Photographing and Broadcasting Proceedings in Court by Judge Leo Carr, The Press and the Prosecution by Judge E. Maurice Braswell, Thomas W. Christopher, and Weimar Jones.
[O'Faolain, Sean]. "The Senate and Censorship." Bell, 5:247-52, January 1943. O8
Comment on the censorship debates in the Irish Senate. O'Faolain criticizes the
legalistic arguments of the chairman of the Censorship Board (Professor
Megennis) in defense of the Board's ban of Dr. Halliday Sutherlands' The
Laws of Life,
despite the fact that the book bore an imprimatur. O'Faolain predicts that authors will ultimately extract the fundamental rights of the individual from the mass of superficial verbiage of the defenders of censorship.
Olson, Kenneth E. "The Press of the British Isles: Oldest Battlers for Freedom." In his The History Makers: The Press of Europe From Its Beginnings Through 1965. Baton Rouge, La., Louisiana State University Press, 1966, pp. 5-32. O9
O'Neil, Robert M. Free Speech: Responsible Communication under Law. Indianapolis, Bobbs- Merrill, 1966. 123p. O10
Deals with legal rights and limitations on speech, including radio and television.
O'Neill, James M. "Catholics and Censorship." In his Catholics in Controversy. New York, McMullen, 1954, pp. 107-54. O11
The author refutes the charges of censorship made against the Catholic hierarchy, the Legion of Decency, the National Organization of Decent Literature, and other Catholic groups. Particularly, he takes to task Paul Blanshard and Elmer Rice. He discusses the film cases of The Miracle, Pinky, M, and La Ronde.
O'Neill, William L., ed. Echoes of Revolt: The Masses, 1911-1917. Introduction by Irving Howe, Afterword by Max Eastman. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1966. 303p. O12
A collection of excerpts from The Masses, the magazine that became the rallying center for almost everything that was irreverent in American culture in the decade before World War I. In its attacks on the capitalist system, militarism, and sexual traditions, the journal was almost continuously involved in controversy and was sometimes confronted with censorship. One section of the anthology discusses the legal battle with the Associated Press on charges of criminal libel (Floyd Dell) and the Arthur Young cartoons that prompted the controversy; another section deals with The Masses and the censor (Anthony Comstock), the New York subway system that dropped the paper from its stands, and an article on post office censorship. Comstock caricatures by Robert Minor and George Bellows are included. There is a section on birth control, including support of Margaret Sanger and Emma Goldman, whose speech in her own defense is included; John Reed's account of the Berkman- Goldman trial, and finally, an account of the end of the The Masses, the result of an indictment under the World War I Espionage Act.
Osborne, John. William Cobbett: His Thought and His Time. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1966. 272p. O13
An analysis of Cobbett's ideas and their relation to the England of his time, concentrating on his career as a political journalist during the first thirty- five years of the nineteenth century. A chapter on the press and scattered references throughout record Cobbett's ardent championing of a free press.
O'Sullivan, Richard. The Law of Defamation. London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1958. 188p. O14
Otto, Herbert A. "Sex and Violence on the American Newsstand." Journalism Quarterly, 40:19-26, Winter 1963. O15
"Three studies tracing the scope and incidence of themes of `sex' and `violence' in mass media of communications are reported. The studies includt content analyses of 55 magazines and of the covers of 296 paperback books available on newsstands, as well as an analysis of 10 leading U.S. newspapers."
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