April/May
issue of Evergreen Review, America's only Bohemian glossy magazine, at
the binders. The county's District Attorney had deemed the publication
obscene. The issue contained works by Norman Mailer, Jean Genet, William
Burroughs, Bryon Gysin, Michael McClure and Karl Shapiro-a who's who of
the day's practitioners of perceived outrage-but what provoked the seizure
was a portfolio of erotic photographs by Emil J. Cadoo.
On June 12, 1964
a Federal Court in Brooklyn put an end to one of the more bizarre episodes
of censorship in recent memory. On that day, three judges condemned police
seizure of 21,000 copies of Evergreen Review No. 32 as "unconstitutional"
and ordered their immediate return to the publisher..