On this day in 1960, a jury of 12 proclaimed 
Lady Chatterley's Lover to not be obscene.
It seems obvious now, but it might not have happened if the Prosecution hadn't made some serious mistakes.
Read article 
here.
Pictured: Passport photo of D. H. Lawrence, now in the possession of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
 
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