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In 1965 the FBI investigated the lyrics of the song "Louie Louie" for alleged obscenity. What legal grounds did this investigation have? Doesn't the First Amendment protect obscene and offensive material in art? People certainly wrote swears, blasphemy, sex and so forth in books at the time.

by /u/LorenzoApophis in /r/AskHistorians

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