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They declined to publish a particular column—-my review of MASHas though it were a Busby Berkeley musical called Gook Killers of 1970-—ostensibly on the grounds of bad taste, but | learned that three wholesalers had told the publisher they were pressured by the FBI and would refuse to distribute Cava/ier if my name appeared in it. On top of that, my name was on a list of sixty-five “radical” campus speakers, released by the House Internal Security Committee. The blacklist was published in the New York Times, and picked up by newspapers across the country. It might have been a coincidence, but my campus-speaking engagement-bookings stopped abruptly. It felt just like a film. OH, WELL It was over for me, but it had been fun—like the issue with only the one large red headline on the Cava/iercover: “BEAT ‘EM SENSELESS FIRST” —THE FREE SPEECH CONTROVERSY, BY PAUL KRASSNER... At the University of California in Berkeley on September 1964, Dean Katherine Towle banned posters, easels and tables at the Bancroft-Telegraph Street entrance to the Berkeley campus “because of interference with flow of traffic.” She also HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024381