About the Program
William Bennett Turner examines American's relationship with the First Amendment through numerous court cases that have shaped the country's current understandings of free speech. Mr. Turner, a former lawyer who has argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, looks at the dichotomy between freedom of speech and popular values in cases that range from Jehovah's Witnesses rights to proselytize to pornographer Larry Flynt's obscenity charges. William Bennett Turner speaks at The Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at San Francisco University.