Artist Jonas Mekas has received an apology from lawyer Gerald Harris over his 1963 prosecution for obscenity, following Mekas’s screening of Jack Smith’s iconic avant-garde film Flaming Creatures.  “I feel I owe you an apology,” Mr. Harris wrote. “Although my appreciation of free expression and aversion to censorship developed more fully as I matured, I should have sooner acted more courageously.”

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