This Day in History: 1910-07-22

Exhibition of the Johnson-Jeffries fight motion picture has been forbidden in New Jersey by Supreme Court Judge Swayze. He charged the Hudson County Grand Jury that to show the pictures of the Nevada fight would be unlawful since they had a clear tendency “to pander to vicious and disorderly members of our society.” The mayors of Paterson and Passaic ordered them banned from their cities. (Bristow)