Charles Keating

:For the actor, see Charles Keating (actor)

Anti-pornography efforts

In the late 1950s, Keating founded the Cincinnati anti-pornography organization Citizens for Decent Literature, later Citizens for Decency through Law. In 1960 he testified against pornography before Congress. In 1964–1965, he produced the movie Perversion for Profit featuring announcer George Putnam. It is a survey of then-available pornography, and attempt to link pornography to the decline of culture and to the depravity of youth.

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1950s - Citizens for Decency through Law - 1960 - Congress - 1964 - 1965 - George Putnam

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In 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed Keating to the President's commission on pornography, which had been begun under Nixon's predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson. Keating unsuccessfully attempted to stop publication of the commission's rather liberal recommendations with a restraining order. Failing in that effort, he then filed a dissenting report, stating "One can consult all the experts he chooses, can write reports, make studies, etc., but the fact that obscenity corrupts lies within the common sense, the reason, and the logic of every man."

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1969 - President - Richard Nixon - Lyndon B. Johnson - Restraining order

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Keating was also instrumental in the (rather ineffective) obscenity prosecution of pornographer Larry Flynt in 1976 in Cincinnati. In the 1996 Flynt biopic The People vs. Larry Flynt, he was portrayed by James Cromwell.

Related Topics:
Obscenity - Larry Flynt - 1976 - Cincinnati - 1996 - Biopic - The People vs. Larry Flynt - James Cromwell

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