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:: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 ::
Lenny Bruce posthumously pardoned By Hugh Bronstein
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thirty-seven years after he died of a drug overdose, pioneering comedian Lenny Bruce has been pardoned for a 1964 obscenity conviction over a raunchy, irreverent monologue at a New York nightclub.
New York Governor George Pataki, issuing what his office said on Tuesday was the first posthumous pardon in the state's history, said his action symbolised New York's commitment to Americans' constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech.
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