Picket Judge Pugh’s Home Over Subversion Inquiry: 1969

Thirty demonstrators picket Judge James H. Pugh at his home at 3904 Raymond Street, Chevy Chase, MD, April 4, 1969 to protest Pugh’s ordering a grand jury investigation of the alternative newspaper Washington Free Press for subversion.

The investigation was part of a year-long campaign 1969-70 to suppress the Free Press that included multiple obscenity charges, raids on their offices, a break-in of their offices and arrests of store owners and street corner distributors of the paper. The campaign succeeded in closing the Free Press.

However, the grand jury ultimately returned no indictments. As a result of court appeals of actions taken against the Free Press, obscenity convictions were overturned, Maryland’s anti-subversive law was gutted and laws and rules against street sellers of newspapers were voided.

For an article on the Washington Free Press battle, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/washington-free-...

For additional images, see the Flickr set “Free Press Battle: 1969.” flic.kr/s/aHsjCKTitQ

Photo by Pike. Courtesy of the DC Public Library, Washington Star Collection©Washington Post. Scanned from an original 8 x 10. This image was not part of the original Washington Area Spark collection and has been added to provide context to the time period.

Taken on: April 4, 1969

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