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Wagner, Geoffrey. "The End of the `Porno' - Or, No More Traveling Companions." Sewanee Review, 75:364-76, Spring 1967. W1
"In a society as committed to liberty as the American, mere license may fail to provoke; for it comes within the anti- authoritarian mode, and so can all too often emerge as cliche." The author analyzes and compares American and French attitudes toward "the literature of sexual trespass," noting the reversal of the French/Anglo- Saxon attitude toward pornography. New pornography in America has to be "far more brutal to reverberate and the truth is that although the traffic is heavier than it has ever been, the porno is vanishing because it no longer represents a transgression."
Wainwright, Loudon. "Dissent to the High Court's Harsh Verdict." Life, 60:26, 22 April 1966. W2
Comment on the Ginzburg obscenity case.
Waite, Edward F. "The Debt of Constitutional Law to Jehovah's Witnesses." Minnesota Law Review, 28:209-46, March 1944. W3
Includes a discussion of the following Supreme Court decisions relating to distribution of literature: Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, (1943), Lovell v. City of Griffin, 303 U.S. 444, (1938), Schneider v. New Jersey, 308 U.S. 147, (1939), Jones v. City of Opelika, 316 U.S. 584, (1942), Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S. 418, (1943), and Marten v. City of Struthers, 319 U.S. 141 (1943).
[Wakem, Hugh], pseud. Hugh Wakem; the Diary of a Smut- Hound. A Crusade for Morality in Literature Supplies the World with a Valuable Insight Into His Life and Habits. Philadelphia, William Hodgson, 1930. 63p. W4
A mock diary describing the imaginary antics of vice society agent Hugh Wakem and his assistant, Otto Klotz, against six booksellers for selling such works as Lysistrata, Fanny Hill, Lady Chatterley's Lover, and The Confessions of Monsieur Montcairn. "The truth is that disgusting as are these books and the lascivious drawings which illustrate them it is not at all difficult to go through them. I have not missed a single word or a single drawing."
Wald, Emil W. "Obscene Literature Standards Re- Examined." South Carolina Law Review, 18:497-503, Spring 1966. W5
Comment on the Ginzburg, Mishkin, and Fanny Hill decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. "In Mishkin and Ginzburg the Court did not abandon the concept embodied in the Roth standard; rather, it recognized its shortcomings and emphasized that it will not ignore the setting and circumstances which may be the determinative factor for questionable materials in the application of Roth."
Walker, Alexander. The Celluloid Sacrifice: Aspects of Sex in the Movies. New York, Hawthorn, 1967. 241p. W6
Chapter 8, One Man's Meat, deals with British film censorship which the author describes as singular (the work of the secretary of the British Board of Film Censors). Chapter 9 deals with American film censorship, basically plural, because the Hollywood Production Code Administration is only one among many censorship groups - state, local, official and unofficial. He compares the operation of the British film board and the American code administration, finding British censorship more flexible, more enlightened, and more liberal in the treatment of serious sex themes. The Hollywood censor is governed by rigid rules and is torn between the demands of the industry and the demands of pressure groups, principally the Legion of Decency, since 1965 known as the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures.
Walker, Dean. "Canadian TV - The Wasteland and the Pasture." Television Quarterly, 1(3):23-38, August 1962. W7
"Canadian television, operating under a complex system of both government and private controls, has produced a veritable `pasture' of ideas and excitement. Creative initiative has not wilted."
Warburton, Herbert B. "Pornography and Youth." In Eli Ginzburg, ed. Values and Ideals of American Youth. New York, Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 157-67. W8
Covers a definition of pornography and obscenity, legal background, and effect of obscenity on youth. The author is former General Counsel, U.S. Post Office Department.
[Warren, Fred D.]. Warren's Defiance to the Federal Courts . . . Full Text of Fred D. Warren's Speeches Before the Federal Courts at Fort Scott and St. Paul. Chicago, Charles H. Kerr, n.d. 29p. W9
The editor of the Socialist paper, Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kan., was brought to trial charged with mailing envelopes bearing a libelous statement about a former Kentucky governor. When Warren's lawyers attempted to acquit him by means of legal technicalities, Warren took over his own defense, based on the issue of freedom of the press. This is a printing of his two speeches, together with a brief description of the Fort Scott trial by George H. Shoaf.
Wasby, Stephen L. The Pure and the Prurient: The Politics of Obscene Literature in Oregon. Eugene, Ore., University of Oregon, 1962. 402p. (Ph.D. dissertation, University Microfilms, no. 63-1085) W10
"The purposes of this study were to determine the impact of United States Supreme Court opinions on policy- making and to examine intensively the development of obscene literature policy in Oregon from 1958 through 1961."
Wellman, Tom. "Student Expression Censored at Missouri University." Focus/Midwest, 5(5):24-29, 1967. W11
The coeditor of the Columbia (Mo.) Free Press describes the efforts of campus and city police to ban sale of his newspaper.
Westin, Alan F. Privacy and Freedom. New York, Atheneum, 1967. 487p. Foreword by Oscar M. Ruebhausen. W12
The work explores the basic concept of privacy in American democracy, examines the uses of the various devices (the expose press, hidden cameras, questionnaires, eavesdropping mechanisms, etc.) by government, industry, and private individuals, and shows how the legislatures, the courts, and the press have responded. The author, director of the Center for Research and Education in American Literature of Columbia University, considers what can be done to safeguard against the assault on privacy and still maintain adequate security for the state and the individual.
Whalen, Ray. Crime and Violence on Television . . . Ottawa, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 1959. 27p. W13
Content analysis reveals that two U.S. networks devoted nine and one- half hours weekly to programs containing crime and violence; the third network carried six and one- half hours. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. carried five and one- half hours, but with fewer hours on the air, its percentage was higher. Despite this, juvenile crimes in Canada decreased since 1942.
White, David M. "The `Gatekeeper': A Case Study in the Selection of News." Journalism Quarterly, 27:383-90, Fall 1950. (Reprinted in L. A. Dexter, and D. M. White, People, Society, and Mass Communications, Glencoe, Ill., Free Press, 1964, pp. 160-72) W14
A case study of the activities of the wire editor of a large daily newspaper whose job it is to select and reject news from an avalanche of wire copy. The study was made to determine why this particular editor selected or rejected news stories and thereby to gain some diagnostic notions about the general role of "gatekeeper."
White, William. "On Collecting `Dirty' Books: Some Notes on Censorship." American Book Collector, 17(7):20-26, March 1967. W15
The author discusses the bibliography of erotica and pornography, and describes the "adults only" paperbacks, nudist magazines, sex- dominated tabloids, and the vast field of literature and nonliterature of sex that was once subterranean but is now sold openly in city "bookstores."
Whitehouse, Mary. Cleaning- up T.V.; from Protest to Participation. London, Blandford, 1967. 240p. W16
Whitton, John B. "The Problem of Curbing International Propaganda." Law and Contemporary Problems, 31:601-21, Summer 1966. W17
"The ideal way to deal with a specific case of inflammatory communication across frontiers would be to seek out and alleviate the cause of the underlying tension." Since this is seldom possible, "our goal must be the more limited one of preventing specific international disputes from worsening and thus increasing the risks of war . . . International efforts must continue toward finding methods of inhibiting propaganda's function as a means of creating and exacerbating conflicts among nations."
"Why I Am [For] [Against] Pornography." Fact, 4(3):15-19, May-June 1967. W18
Twenty- eight famous Americans answer these questions: Is pornography bad or good? If bad, should it be censored?
Whyte, George K., Jr. "Use of Expert Testimony in Obscenity Litigation." Wisconsin Law Review, 1965:113-32, Winter 1965. W19
Widmer, Kingsley. Censorship and the Teacher: The Experience of Freedom. Chicago, American Federation of Teachers, n.d. 16p. (A Grassroots Research Project) W20
In addition to the censorship of teaching materials that comes from community pressure groups, the author attacks censorship within the teaching profession - the academic and administrative special interest groups - the censorship by school administrators out of fear of conflict or change, and the effort of textbook publishers to avoid controversy. He recommends that teachers use supplementary paperbacks, recognize ideological propaganda and counterbalance it. Freedom in the use of teaching materials should become part of a broader educational freedom. "To be truly against censorship - our own as well as others - means to drastically pursue the critical variousness and lively responsiveness which encourage the experience of freedom."
Wiggins, James R. "The Press and the Courts." In Archibald Cox, et al., Civil Rights, the Constitution, and the Courts. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967, pp. 57-76. W21
The importance of the press in continuing public scrutiny in the proper administration of justice. Paper presented before the Massachusetts Historical Society
-------. "Top Secret! Secret! Confidential!" Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 417:9, 12, 1 February 1959. W22
"There is more than one way to endanger the country's security. And I think presently we are pursuing a way that is more insidious than espionage and we may be weakening our country far more than any of us can perceive." Deals with the misuse of security classification.
Williams, D. G. T. "Control of Obscenity." Criminal Law Review, 1965:471-79, August 1965; 1965:522-31, September 1965. W23
A review of recent court decisions in Britain under the Obscene Publications Acts of 1959 and 1964.
Williams, David. Not in the Public Interest; the Problem of Security in Democracy. London, Hutchinson, 1965. 224p. W24
The purpose of the book is to point to some of the areas of conflict in the controversy about executive secrecy in Great Britain, with special emphasis on the workings of the Official Secrets Acts.
Williams, George L. "School Censorship in Fascist Italy and the U.S." School and Society, 95:185-88, 18 March 1967. W25
The author finds book censorship in local communities throughout the United States today reminiscent in some respects of censorship in Fascist Italy in 1922-43
Williams, Wythe. Passed by the Censor; the Experience of an American Newspaper Man in France. New York, Dutton, 1916. 270p. W26
Williamson, E. G., and John L. Cowan. The American Student's Freedom of Expression: A Research Appraisal. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1966. 193p. W27
Editorial Freedom section, pp. 125-34.
Wilmer, Lambert A. Our Press Gang; or, a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspapers. Philadelphia, J. T. Lloyd, 1860. 394p. W28
Among the many charges the writer makes against the press are tyranny of editors, deception, obscene reporting of crime, trial by newspaper, encouragement of treason, and slander and defamation of character. Specific examples are given throughout. One section deals with editorial duels, another with flogging of editors. Freedom of the press, the author maintains, is a farcical illusion. "Our journalism is both tyrannical and slavish; it succumbs to every powerful influence, and it is bold and independent only when it attacks the weak and defenseless."
Wirt, Frederick M. State Film Censorship, with Particular Reference to Ohio. Columbus, Ohio State University, 1956. 492p. (Ph.D. dissertation, University Microfilms, no. 20,738) W29
Wolff, Geoffrey. "Government Book Control." Book Week (World Journal Tribune), 4(22):2, 15, 5 February 1967. W30
"There is much evidence that books [written by public officials] are used increasingly as engines of propaganda, that highly- placed persons are pre- censoring books they find repellant or embarrassing, and that they are commissioning and controlling the writing of books without disclosing the facts of such control." Much of the article deals with the Book Development Program of the U.S.I.A. as revealed in a congressional hearing, in which the U.S.I.A. subsidizes the secret production of manuscripts, published by private companies and sold in this country without any government imprimatur or acknowledgment of the circumstances of their origin. "It is not Government money or Government interest itself that sullies books. All one wants is that Government acknowledge its involvement and keep its hands off the writer's work."
Wolfram, Harold W. "Free Press, Fair Trial, and the Responsibility of the Bar." Criminal Law Review, 1(1):3-17, Spring 1954. W31
Woodward, W. E. Tom Paine: America's Godfather, 1737-1809. New York, Dutton 1945. 359p. W32
Chapter 8, Paine as a Propagandist; Chapter 10, The Rights of Man; Chapter 11, More Books - More Trouble; Chapter 12, Outlawed in England; and Chapter 13, The Age of Reason, dealing with the challenge in England to Paine's unorthodox political and religious ideas.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. "The Abolitionists' Postal Campaign of 1835." Journal of Negro History, 50(4):227-38, October 1965. W33
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