Epilog: Playboy Vs. The Department Of Justice

June, 1983

in 1965, the klan murdered a civil rights worker and we wanted to know the truth about it. we sued to get the facts and we wonOn May 8,1980, after months of unsuccessful negotiations by Playboy's attorneys under the Freedom of Information Act (F.O.I.A.), Playboy filed suit against the United States Department of Justice and Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti for release to the public of a 302-page Justice Department document, the Task Force Report on Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr.The report had been...

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