Steve Benson on Lillian Hellman

This Week in History: On December 14, 1935, the mayor of Boston banned Lillian Hellman's play "The Children's Hour." Steve Benson considers the many stands Hellman took against censorship and repression of all kinds, including her defiance of McCarthyism.

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