From Bloomberg TV
Larry Flynt Publications President Larry Flynt discusses building and expanding his media empire and protecting the 1st Amendment with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.”
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From CBS News
Anyone who knows the name Larry Flynt is likely to remember the 1978 shooting that left him paralyzed. And many have long since formed an opinion of the man — and of the magazine he created that made him famous (some would say notorious).
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From HUFFPOST
Al Goldstein is fondly remembered by millions as the man who pushed them into puberty. “Screw” introduced unapologetic pornography to the mainstream with its first issue in November 1968, and we talk to those who knew the man behind the pink.
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From VICE.COM
Larry Flynt has been in the press lately for something a bit more grim than freedom of speech or porn. The 71-year-old media tycoon has been speaking out about the death penalty in America and his opposition to it; the impetus was the scheduled execution of Joseph Paul Franklin, the man who shot Flynt back in 1978, paralyzing him from the waist down. He had attempted to kill Flynt that day, but Flynt lived—although he has now spent as much of his life in a wheelchair as he did walking.
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From CNN.COM
Joseph Paul Franklin is unblinking and empty as he talks about his victims.
Do you know how many people you murdered? “I’d rather not mention it,” he says flatly.
By my count, it’s 22 people. “That’s approximately it.”
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