Lenny Bruce
Born
Lenny Bruce, Philadelphia, 1961
The board is dated 9-29-61, the day Philadelphia police arrested the comedian on a narcotics possession charge that was later dropped. Five days later he was arrested again, at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, for obscenity on stage. A jury acquitted him of that one in 1962, but obscenity cases, not drugs, defined the rest of his career.
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