Confidential’s Publisher Robert Harrison, his two sisters and threeother associates, all under a Los Angeles indictment on counts ofcriminal libel, distributing lewd and obscene material anddisseminating illegal information about abortions and malerejuvenation, walked into the Manhattan D.A.’s office one day last weekand voluntarily surrendered. But it was only a technical surrender. AsCalifornia’s Governor Goodwin Knight signed extradition papers for thelot and fired them off to New York, Harrison & Co. said they wouldoppose extradition, retorted with a $2,047,125 suit againstCalifornia’s Attorney General Edmund G. Brown and his assistant. Thecharge: censorship and suppression of 325,000 copies of the JuneConfidential issue by threatening dealers and distributors who handledthe magazine with prosecution.
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