Renowned Free Speech Attorney Al Bendich Dies
January 15, 2015
Al Bendich, a lawyer who successfully defended the right to free speech in two landmark midcentury obscenity cases — involving Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” and Lenny Bruce’s nightclub act — died on Jan. 5 in Oakland, Calif. He was 85. The apparent cause was a heart attack.
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