PAST CENSORSHIP

PAST CENSORSHIP. In 1991 an article in the Telegraph Herald described the current state of censorship in America. The article included the protests and boycotting of the 1988 film "The Last Temptation of Christ" and the subsequent banning of the film in hundreds of movie theaters across the united States. According to the author, it was a world in which people attempted to ban Stephen King's 1988 thrilled "Children of the Corn." Congress in 1911 required grant recipients to sign a pledge not to use federal money to produce works that might be seen as obscene.

Despire this, arts and entertainment officials in Dubuque reported few problems with censorship. Ruth NASH who had been involved in the arts in Dubuque for twenty-five years said she was unaware of a censorship problem here. Ann McCaw, director of the DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART said she had never had a problem, nor had Jerry ENZLER of the DUBUQUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Enzler reported the society even displayed a KU KLUX KLAN robe in an exhibit about the history of the ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE but never had a complaint.