This full page newspaper advertisement appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer several days after the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Jacobellis v. Ohio, reversing Jacobellis's conviction and declaring The Lovers to not be obscene and thus protected under the First Amendment. In his concurring opinion, Justice Potter Stewart famously stated that he could not precisely define "hard-core pornography... But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." The phrase "I know it when I see it" has since become a popular way to describe something observable, yet not clearly definable. | Source: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
