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Jones to DeLoach 7 Re: BUDD WILSON SCHULBERG _ JERRY WALD £7C- The press reported in February, 1961, that 20th Century-Fox studio ‘thad purchased "The Enemy Within," the Attorney General's book,and that producer Jerry Wald would make the movie. The story highlights problems and abuses uncovered by the Senate Rackets Committee of which Attorney General Kennedy was Chief Counsel. 2 "The Hollywood Reporter" reported on December 13, 1960, that producer ; Sey Wald had said that recent front page attacks on moral quality of films is un- warranted and the accusations are refuted by box office results showing that ticket -+ buyers support clean films much more than they patronize sex and violence. = In connection with a recent Supreme Court decision affirming the right of a Chicago board to require that a motion picture be submitted for review before it ae could be exhibited which was widely heralded in the motion picture industry as opening [- the way for censorship of movies, Wald had some suggestions as reported in "Daily - Variety" on January 27, 1961. He suggested amending Article 1 of the Constitution [ ._ which prohibits Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion 7? or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the '; press and so forth, to add "or of the press: of television, of radio, of films or any medium of communication, now known or unknown." | it should be noted that this Supreme Court decision did not touch upon ‘the validity of the Chicago board's right to refuse permission for a film to be exhibited ‘but merely declared that the board had the right to request that the film be submitted _ for review. It should be added that in this 5 to 4 decision, the minority also viewed the _ majority report as an open invitation to censorship.