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July, 1969
Possession of PornographyWashington, D.C.---"Whatever may be the justifications for other statutes regulating obscenity, we do not think they reach into the privacy of one's own home," wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall, as the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned Georgia's law that made possession of pornographic material a crime. (Prior to this decision, private possession of pornography was prohibited in a large number of states and interpreted as being illegal in most of the rem...
