Attorney General's Commission on Pornography [AGCP] – AGCP Memoranda to Commissioners [mainly from Alan Sears, Executive Director of the Commission; there are some draft recommendations]

Correspondence to Commission: letters from attorneys, organizations and interested individuals; includes some testimonies and petitions

[Correspondence within Commission]

[Correspondence: Miscellaneous]

[Correspondence from Citizens]

[Member Lists, Expenses]

Pre-Washington, D.C. [June 1985] Materials

[Press Conferences]

Press Instructions,

[Work Session Agendae]

[Washington, D.C. Hearing]: Statements and testimonies of Lois Haight Herrington, Assistant Attorney General; Barry W. Lynn, Legislative Council ACLU; Ingrid Horton; Richard W. Miller, Associate Commissioner of Customs; Isabelle Katz Pinzler, Director Women's Rights Project, ACLU; Lillian BeVier, University of Virginia School of Law; Martha J. Langelan and Deborah M. Chalfie, D.C. Feminists Against Pornography; Association of American Publishers, Inc.; John F. Forbes, Senior Special Agent, US Customs Office, Bonn, Germany; William V. Roth, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation's Examination of Child Pornography and Pedophilia; Senator Dennis DeConcini speech

Washington, D.C. Meeting: agenda and notes

Chicago Meeting [Dietz absent]: Summary of Witness Testimonies, agenda

Houston Hearings: Questions for consideration; summaries of hearings; notes; some correspondence; agenda; newspaper clippings. Testimonies, reports, statements of Dr. John H. Court, Spectrum Psychological & Counselling Centre, Adelaide, S. Australia; Mary S. Calderone, MD; Report of W. L. Marshall, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: "The Use of Pornography by Sex Offenders"; Gene G. Abel, MD: "Use of pornography and erotica by sex offenders," Emory University School of Medicine; Diana Scully, VCU:" The Role of Violent Pornography in Justifying Rape"; John Money, Ph. D, John Hopkins University: "Pornography as Related to Criminal Sex Offending and the History of Medical Degeneracy Theory"; Paul R. Abramson, UCLA: "Pornography in Japan"; statistics for the City of Cincinnati; Diana E. H. Russell, Mills College: "The impact of pornography on Women"; Neil M. Malamuth, University of California, Los Angeles: "The Mass Media as an Indirect Cause of Sexual Aggression"; Edward Donnerstein and Dan Linz, University of Wisconsin presentation paper; Dolf Zillman, Indiana University and Jennings Bryant, University of Houston: "Shifting appetites in pornography consumption"; Donn Byrne, SUNY at Albany: "External and internal imagery as determinants of sexual and aggressive behavior: defining the problem and attempting to solve it"; Wendy Stock, Texas A&M University: "The effect of pornography on women"; Richard Green, SUNY at Stony Point: "Exposure to explicit sexual materials and sexual assault: a review of behavioral and social science research"; Dolf Zillmann testimony on "Effects of repeated exposure to nonviolent pornography"; Donald L. Mosher, University of Connecticut: "Freedom of inquiry and scientific consensus on pornography: Attorney General's Commission on Pornography"; statement by Dr. C.A. Tripp; Larry Baron, Yale University: "Toward an integrated theory of rape"; Ann Welbourne-Moglia: "Sex information and education council of the U.S."

Los Angeles Hearings

Miami Hearings: Summaries of testimonies of Detective William Dworin, Los Angeles Police Department Sexually Exploited Child Unit and Lt. Tom Rodgers, Indianapolis Police Department; submitted written statements [summaries] of Joseph Burton and D. James Kennedy ph.D.; testimony of Paul Der Ohannesian II, Assistant Attorney General of Albany County, NY; Defense for Children International: "A request for concern: the commercial sexual exploitation of children" presented by Kenneth J. Herrmann and Michael John Jupp; statement of detective William Dworin, Los Angeles Police Department Sexually Exploited Child Unit; Report of Ulrich C. Schoettle, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine to the AGCP; statement of Joyce Ann Karlin, Assistant US Attorney; statement of Dennis J. Shaw, Commander, Task Force on Missing and Sexually Exploited Children; statement of Barbara M. Hattemer; Stone, Lore E. and David Finkelhor: "Child Pornography Literature and its Relationship to Child Sexual Abuse" paper presented at the Fifth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Montreal, Canada, September 1984

New York City Hearings: Statements, presentations, remarks of Andrea Dworkin: "Pornography is a Civil Rights Issue for Women"; Homer E. Young, retired FBI agent; Carl M. Shoffler and Ledra G. Brady, Metropolitan Police Department; Marilyn B. Sommers, Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network (MAGLOCLEN); Senator Christopher J. Mega, Chairman, New York State Crime and Correction Committee; William P. Kelly, retired FBI agent, Obscenity Consultant, Broward County Sherriff's Office, Fort Lauderdale, Fl.; Thomas F. Bohling, police officer, Organized Crime Division, Vice Control Section, Chicago Police Deparment; "A content analysis of Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler Magazines with Special Attention to the Portrayal of Children, Crime, and Violence" supplementary testimony by Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Role of Pornography and Media Violence in Family Violence, Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, and Juvenile Delinquency, Institute for Media Education, Arlington, VA; American Jewish Committee testimony to AGCP; Corinne Jacker and Loring Mandel representing Writers Guild, East; Karen DeCrow, Esq.; Detective III Alan Smith. Los Angeles Police Department; Captain Jerome Piazza, Manhattan South Public Morals District; Agent Larry A. Schuchman, Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, Orlando, Fl.; Prof. David Cohen on behalf of the New York Library Association; communication to the AGCP from attorney Paul J. McGeady; statement of James D. Harmon, Jr.. executive Director and Chief Counsel, President's Commission on Organized Crime; testimony of Rev. Edward M. Egan, Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar for Education, Archdiocese of New York; heather Florence, Bantam Books, Inc.; Colleen Dewhurst, Actors' Equity Association; H. Robert Showers, Assistant US Attorney, Eastern District of North Carolina; Samuel T. Currin, US Attorney, Eastern District of North Carolina; Mrs. June Griffin, Cumberland Missionary Society, Inc.; Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard Law School: "Outline of Professor Dershowitz's testimony before "the Meese Commission"; father Val J. Peter, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home; James Alleva, Assistant Director of Morality in Media, National Obscenity Law Center; Penthouse: Memorandum of Comment and Objection in re The Hearings of the U.S. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography; remarks of Jeremiah S. Gutman on behalf ACLU

[Ancillary Materials for NYC Meeting: copies of letters from religious groups addressed to Alan Sears, Executive Director of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. Includes some pastoral statements]

Scottsdale Hearings: Transcript of Proceedings of Public Meeting of the Commissioners (27 February 1986) [seems that we are missing the first part]

Child Pornography: recommendations by Deanne Tilton, California Consortium of Child Abuse Council (CCCC) president, and draft of chapter

[Court Decisions]: copies of appeals and opinions

1986 Data Collected by Police and draft

Dial-a-Porn: newspaper clippings and Klein, Lloyd: "Sexual encounters of the Fantasy Kind: Telephone Sex and Criminal Justice System"

[FBI Tape Transcript]

[Miscellaneous Reports, Testimony]: Columbus Ohio The Mayor's Commission on Pornography (May 1987); Background on the Fraser report of Canada and The Williams report of England. England's Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship; Testimony of Daryl F. Gates, Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department to California Commission on Crime and Punishment ( 30 July 1985); City of Phoenix Planning Department: "Adult Business Study" (25 may 1979)

[Pornography Research Papers, Reports, some printed materials]: Report on "Pornographic Sales at Military Bases"; Judy Goldsmith, National Organization for Women (12 September 1984); Kenneth V. Lanning: "Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis for Law Enforcement"; Dolf Zillman and Jennings Bryant: "Pornography's Impact on Sexual Satisfaction" and "Effects of Pornography Consumption on Family Values"; Report of the National Federation of Decency prepared by David E. Caton (April 1986); Lamarsh Report. Report No. 11, A Survey of Canadians' Attitudes Regarding Sexual Content in the Media prepared by James V. P. Check, Nelson A. Heapy, Oleh Iwanyshyn (July 1985); Donald L. Mosher: "Misinformation on Pornography: A Lobby Disguised as an Educational Organization"; David Alexander Scott: Pornography Its Effects on the Family, Community and Culture, Washington, DC, Child and Family Protection Institute, 1985; Joseph E. Scott and Loretta A. Schwalm: "Rape rates and the circulation rates of adult magazines"; R. P. "toby" Tyler: "The International Exploitation of Children: Child Pornography" Sureté, Le Magazine de la Suret'e du Québec (February 1985); Ann Wolbert Burguess, RN, DNSc, University of Pennsylvania, "Pornography Adult and Child" ; Miriam A. Bishop: "The implications of empirical research for the regulation of pornography: isn't there a better way? (draft 2, January 1986); Lynn D. Wardle: "Cable comes of age: a constitutional analysis of the regulation of "indencent" cable television programming" (March 1986)

[Organized Crime]: reports, printed materials, copies of court documents and transcriptions of taped interviews

[Prosecutions: Material from Marcella Cohen, Special Attorney in the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice Organized Crime and Racketeering Section]: statement to the AGCP and court documents

Social Science Findings [includes correspondence, clippings] -.0 Copies of letters to AGCP Chairman from John Updike, John Irving, Susan Isaacs and other statements. Drafts

[Reuben Sturman: Investigative Report and Indictment]

Television/Radio: includes: Committee on Communications Law: "Content Regulation of Cable television: "Indecent" Cable Programming and the First Amendment", The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Vol. 41, No. 1; Letter to Dietz signed by Joseph Gans, Sr., John C. Malone, James P. Mooney, William B. Strange, Jr., John W. Goddard, Robert Miron and Trygve E. Myhren, National Cable Television Association (22 April 1986); letters to Alan E. Sears and Henry Hudson from Jack D. Smith, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission (25 April 1986) and HBO CEO Michael J. Fucks (7 April 1986)

["Victim's" Testimonials]

Personal Statement of Park Elliott Dietz for AGCP

Personal Statements of Deanne Tilton Durfee, Judith Becker, Ellen Levine (undated); Personal statement by Fr. Bruce Ritter (15 May 1986); "Pornography and Privacy" submitted by Father Bruce Ritter (15 May 1986); Henry Hudson, Chairman of the GACP; Commissioner Frederick Shauer; statement by Dr. Judith Becker and Ellen Levine; James C. Dobson, President, Focus on the Family (16 May 1986)

[Fred Schauer's Draft Report]

Schauer Draft [Annotated]

[Various Drafts and briefings: Briefings re Civil Rights, Dial-A-Porn, Cable Television, Fair Trade Proposal (draft), Citizen Action Against Pornography, Comments of Diane D. Cusak on Class III Pornography, I.E. Explicit Sexual Activity, Real or Simulated, Without Violence, Degradation or Humilation" (undated); draft of chapter 14th: alternatives to law enforcement: nuisance, civil rights; history of pornography (draft, 23 January 1986); Exposure to Media Violence Behavior: A Brief Review of the Research (Prepared as Per Request of Commissioner Park E. Dietz); Dietz, P. E., M.D., Ph.D.: "A classification of visual materials with erotic, sexual, or obscene content (draft, 18 November 1985); Father Bruce Ritter: "Nonviolent, Sexually Explicit Material and Sexual Violence (draft, 14 May 1986); magazines (draft); "The imagery found among magazines, books, films "adults only" pornography outlets (draft, 8 April 1986)] [Various Drafts and briefings, f. 2: memoranda and correspondence; Dobson, James: "Attorney General's Commission on Pornography Comment on Pornographic Materials Category III; Hudson, Henry E.: "Category III Materials"; recommendations re: amendment of Title 18, U.S. Code Sections 1462 and 1465, law enforcement manpower and training; memoranda re: proposed definition of pornography; Summary of the Social Science Research ( 12 November 1985); Chapter Nine: Victimization; Los Angeles Recommendations on "Child Pornography Deferred"; Los Angeles Findings] [Various Drafts and briefings, f. 3: Citizen and Community Action; DOJ memorandum re pornography types and forms; Recommendations on child pornography (24 January 24 1986); drafts] [Various Drafts and briefings, f. 4: chapter 9: victimization (draft)]

AGPC Distribution/Reaction [includes correspondence and Memorandum of Comment and Objection in re The Hearings of the US Attorney General's Commission on Pornography from Penthouse; Covenant House Under 21; testimony of Philip Nobile and Eric Nadler (2 May 1986); Playboy Enterprises, Inc

Media Coalition [Critical of Report]: memoranda re Legislative Update; correspondence; Proposal for The Media Coalition on the Issue: The U.S. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (11 June 1986); Proposal Anti-censorship Communications Program for the Media Coalition (June 1986); Censorship News, Issue 26); The National Consumers Association for the Advancement and Protection of Pornography, Inc.: "Beware the pornophobes"; National Coalition Against Censorship [NCAC]: "What is the NCAC, and what does it to you?" (19 January 1988)

AGPC: Opposition Campaign: W.H.I.S.P.E.R Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt, Statement by Norma Ramos, legal counselor (9 June 1986); ACLU News press release: "ACLU Calls on Americans to Reject Moralizing of Meese Pornography Commission Report" (9 July 1986); Report of a Survey of Attitudes Toward Free Access to Books and Magazines prepared for Americans for Constitutional Freedom prepared by Penn + Schoen Associates, Inc. (11 September 1986); Americans for Constitutional Freedom press release: "New Survey Finds Strong Opposition to Censorship; Born Again Christians Support Free Access to Books and Magazines" (25 September 1986); some correspondence and newspaper clippings

[Playboy, Penthouse Lawsuit] No. 86-1346 (Hon. John Garrett Penn), Playboy Enterprises, Inc, American Booksellers Association, Inc, Council for Periodical Distributors Associations, Inc. and International Periodical Distributors Association, Inc. v. Edwin Meese III, Attorney General of the United States, et al; motions; some correspondence

American Sunbathing Association: brochures and guide

[Ancillary Materials: Miscellaneous]: copies of letters addressed to Senator Strom Thurmond, James C. McKinney and Senator Alan Spector; DOJ Obscenity Statistics

[Anti-Pornography Groups]: printed materials. The Backlash Times, Feminists Fighting Pornography (Fall 1985); Denver National Conference on Pornography: "The Case of the PEOPLE vs. PORNOGRAPHY Can Be Won" program; Blueprint for Action to Win the Case of the PEOPLE v, PORNOGRAPHY, prepared by Morality in Media, Inc.; Media Training Guidebook for the National Coalition Against Pornography submitted by The Russ Reid Company (January 1986); "Avoidable Damage. A "mini-dossier on sexual exploitation," International Children Rights Monitor, vol. 2, no. 1; OKAP, Oklahomans Against Pornography, vol. 2, no. 4

[Article Manuscripts and report]: The Family, Preserving America's Future, A Report of the Working Group on the Family (November 1986); Russell, Diana E. H : Pornography and Rape: A Casual Model (draft); Loken, Gregory: Use of Performers in Commercial Pornography (draft, 14 April 1986)

Bible Advocate, January 1985; December 1985

[Bradshaw to Dobson: Letters]

[Child Pornography: Memorandum from DOJ re Obscenity and Child Pornography Conference; Cr. No. 88-35-E Memorandum of Law]

Child Pornography: Case of Glen Foster: newspaper article

Child Pornography and Pedophilia Investigation Report: U.S. Senate

Citizens For Decency Through Law: Submission of Bruce A. Taylor to AGCP (22 January 1986); some correspondence, printed materials

Clinical Psychology News Interview

[Correspondence: to Park Dietz June 1986 and newspaper clippings]

[Correspondence: to Park Dietz after June 1986 re the AGCP report]

[Correspondence: to Laura Dietz re the AGCP]

[Correspondence with Diana Russell]

Correspondence with Dr. Linnea W. Smith; newspaper clippings, printed materials

[Civil Rights Approach Against Pornography: printed materials

[Criminal Justice Information: printed materials]

Dietz: Non-Pornography Work]

Laura Dietz: Junior League of Richmond: correspondence re consulting

Feminists Against Pornography: printed materials

First Amendment: Fulmer, Ann D: "Pornography as Discrimination: a First Amendment Issue" Akron Law Review (submitted 28 January 1984); DOJ memorandum re Obscenity (10 December 1984)

[Freedom of Expression Issues: remarks by Mark S. Fowler before the First Amendment Congress, Leesburg, VA (20 May 1982); "Free the Broadcasting 10 000" address by Mark S. Fowler, Chairman, FCC before the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters (25 October 1982); ACLU: "Rushing to Censorship: An interim report on the methods of evidence gathering and evaluation by the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, a report by Barry W. Lynn (undated)]

[Justice Department on Missing Children: America's Missing & Exploit Children, Their Safety and Their Future]

Koskoff, Harriet: Film: "The Porning of America": correspondence

[Magazines: Assorted (3)]

[Magazines: Bondage]

[Magazines: Playboy],

[Mail Solicitations]

[Michael McManus: newspaper clippings]

[Dottie Meyer in Penthouse: copies of articles]

[Miscellaneous Notes, etc]

National Christian Association: brochures and printed materials

[National Coalition Against Pornography, Inc: correspondence, press releases, fact sheets; Summary of the Final Report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography prepared by Richard E. McLawhorn (July 1986)]

National Conference of State Legislators, New Orleans [May, 1986: materials for the conference. Includes Dietz, Park Elliott: "Pornography, Health, and Human Rights: Legislative Recommendations from the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography]

[Ongoing Campaign Against Pornography: handwritten notes]

[Playboy Cartoon Studies: Burgess, Ann W: The Playboy cartoon information delivery system and client sexual exploitation by health professionals (25 March 1985)]

Presentencing, Mann Act: Institute for Youth Advocacy: "Proposed Revision of Mann Act to make it gender neutral" (October 1985); Recommendations regarding the Mann Act. Tentative Proposed Findings of Fact; Recommendations Regarding Rock Music Lyrics; Dietz Recommended Sources of Information for Sentencing Reports

[Press Releases]

Religious Alliance Against Pornography: handwritten notes; letter to the President; Recommendations for Changes in Federal Law, memoranda; statement published in USA Today (26 September 1986)

Rutledge Hill Press

[Schauer, Frederick Articles]

[Sex Education]: Anchell, Melvin, M.D: "A Psychoanalytic Look at Today's Sex Education: A Guide for the Perplexed" (1985); Marshall, Robert G: Exposed: Guttmacher Institute Sex Study Flawed, report prepared for American Life Lobby in cooperation with The Castello Institute of Stafford, Stafford, VA (1985); Modern Sex Education Teachers Edition (10th Grade Dade County Public School), photocopies; letter addressed to Dietz with transcript "Regarding a talk given to a Health Class (freshman-sophomore), January 7, 1983, at Righetti High School, Santa Maria, CA taped by a student. Talk was given by Robert Webber, Director of Santa Barbara North County Planned Parenthood" (7 January 1983)

Speech: Dietz Lecture delivered before the National Conference of State Legislatures August 5, 1986 in New Orleans on "Pornography, Health, and Human Rights: Legislative Recommendations from the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography"; also Dietz: Pornography and Public Health (same text)

TV Media: notes

[Violence and Sex: newspaper clippings and National Coalition on Television Violence newsletters]

[Zewe Case: U.S. Brief]: USDC Pennsylvania Nos. 85-2081, 85-2087, 86-510

[Assorted Clippings]

Newspaper Clippings/Popular Literature

[Media Reaction to Report: newspaper clippings]

Attorney General's Commission on Pornography Final Report