Constitutional Law
Oct. 21, 2006
How the 'Howl' Obscenity Trial Shook Up America
SAN FRANCISCO - On a foggy October night in 1954, Allen Ginsberg stood at the corner of Pine and Powell streets, zonked on peyote, peering at the great lamp atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - On a foggy October night in 1954, Allen Ginsberg stood at the corner of Pine and Powell streets, zonked on peyote, peering at the great lamp atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel.
What Ginsberg saw inspired him to write "Howl," a landmark poem the literary world cheered and the criminal justice system prosecuted.
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