Tom and Dick Smothers, two clean-cut, conservative-looking comedians, became the causes celebres for civil libertarians in April 1969 when their television show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was canceled by CBS, ostensibly because the Smotherses had failed to fulfill their contract obligations to provide entertainment that met the standards set by CBS. The reason put forth by the Smotherses and most independent observers was censorship.
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiered on CBS on 5 February 1967 as a midseason.....
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