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Atlanta Rewind: Larry Flynt shot in Gwinnett
Atlanta Rewind: Larry Flynt shot in Gwinnett
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The March 7, 1978, Atlanta Constitution wasn't your typical Tuesday edition. Atlanta readers got the details of the March 6 shooting in downtown Lawrenceville of Hustler magazine owner Larry Flynt and his attorney, Gene Reeves. The men were headed to the Gwinnett County Courthouse for the continuation of Flynt's obscenity trial. Flynt had been arrested in September 1977 on charges that the August 1977 issue of Hustler was obscene. The Constitution staff report notes that before the shooting "Flynt had entered what was to have been the final day of his trial on charges of distributing obscene materials. During the morning he had taken the stand for about an hour and a half to convince a six-member jury that his sexually explicit Hustler magazine was a 'satire' and a 'put-on.'"
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