Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history. Wikipedia
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Lenny Bruce - Comedian, Satirist, Prophet. I am attempting to compile a chronology of all the major events in Lenny's life... www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/lennybruce/
