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[Russell, Sir Edward]. A Report of the Trial of Sir Edward Russell at the Liverpool Assizes for Criminal Libel in the "Liverpool Post and Mercury," together with the Proceedings on the Application for a Rule before the Divisional Court. Liverpool, Daily Post and Mercury, 1905. 251p. R304
The trial of Sir Edward Russell, editor, and Alexander G. Jeans, publisher of the Liverpool paper, charged with criminal libel for criticizing the administration of beer-hall licensing by the licensing judges. The history and legal precedent in newspaper libel comes in for discussion throughout the trial. The jury found the defendants not guilty.
Russell, George W. (AE) "The Censorship in Ireland." Nation & Athenaeum (London), 44:435-36, 22 December 1928. (Reprinted in Downs, The First Freedom, pp. 391-93) R305 §
AE, along with William Butler Yeats, a leader in the Irish literary renaissance, was an outspoken critic of Irish censorship. He wrote this brief attack during the debates over the Censorship Bill. AE notes the Freudian preoccupation in Ireland with sexual sins, "almost the only ones seriously regarded by our moralists." Sex in Ireland has come to have an obscene significance and the objectionable bill defines indecent literature as anything "calculated to excite sexual passion," a definition which "would suppress in Ireland half the literature of the world which deals with passionate love between men and women."
Russell, Herbert. "News Censorship in War." Fighting Forces, 2:181-92, June 1925. R306
A British correspondent in World War I maintains that "much in the censorship of news in wartime is supererogatory, futile, and therefore, ineffective."
[Russell, Joseph]. Trial of Joseph Russell, for a Political Libel, being Mr. Hone's Parody on the Litany. Birmingham, Eng., 1819. 48p. R307
A Birmingham bookseller was convicted in the sale of William Hone's parody, a publication which a London jury laughed at and refused to find libelous.
Russell, W. M. S. "The Two Censors." Listener, 67:416-18, 8 March 1962 R308
The dividing line between what is permitted and what suppressed "never seems to be in the same place. It wobbles . . . Each society, like each individual, draws the dividing line between its own beliefs and behavior and any others, rational or not. But the pattern of society changes, and the line shifts with it."
Rutherfurd, Livingston. John Peter Zenger, His Press, His Trial and a Bibliography of Zenger Imprints . . . Also a Reprint of the First Edition of the Trial. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1904. 275p. (Edition limited to 360 copies; reprinted in 1941 by Peter Smith) R309
This is the standard biography of the newspaper publisher who figured in the most celebrated case of freedom of the press in American history. The Rutherfurd work includes a bibliography of the issues of the Zenger press, 1725-51, and a list of the issues of Zenger's New York Weekly Journal that are available in libraries. There is also a bibliography of the Zenger trial, beginning with the Brief Narrative of the Case . . ., issued in 1736 and probably written by James Alexander, to Chandler's American Criminal Trials, 1841, an abridgment of the 1736 edition.
Rutland, James R., comp. State Censorship of Motion Pictures. New York, Wilson, 1923. 177p. (Reference Shelf, vol. 2, no. 1) R310
A compilation of articles and statements, pro and con, on censorship of the movies, compiled at the close of the first significant decade of the movie industry. Among the articles favoring some form of censorship are: Censor and the "Movie Menace," and What Are the Movies Making of Our Children? by Ellis P. Oberholtzer, secretary of the Pennsylvania Board of Motion Picture Censors, and Reasons for Regulation, an extract from the annual report of the New York State Moving Picture Commission. Opposing censorship is the report of the investigating committee of the New York State Conference of Mayors, a statement from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and from the Massachusetts Federation of Labor. A bibliography on state censorship of motion pictures is given on pages 16 to 28.
Rutland, Robert A. The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791. Chapel Hill, N.C., Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1955. 243p. (Also in Collier paperback edition) R311
A study of the process by which the Bill of Rights became the first ten amendments of the federal Constitution. The account traces the background in English common law, in American colonial history, and in the written codes of the various states.
Ryan, John A. "Freedom of Speech in Wartime." Catholic World, 106:577-88, February 1918. R312
Ryan, John K. "Are the Comics Moral?" Forum, 95:301-4, May 1936. R313
The author gives examples of "sadism, bestial and degenerate scenes and characters" found in comic strips which he feels have bad effects upon immature minds. "The prevention and correction of such effects are a task for an aroused public conscience."
Ryckman, Charles S. "Why We Banned Fight Ballyhoo." Quill, 18(2):9, 16, December 1930. R314
The elimination of fight news in the Fremont, Neb., Tribune, as news unfit to print.
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