A banned obscene film could screen at the White House in 1962

Evidence

Thus, The Connection had its US theatrical premiere in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1962, and was shown elsewhere that spring including a private screening at the White House organized by presidential advisor Arthur Schlesinger. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 402

Categorization

• XREF: The gap between state censorship and elite consumption is a class signal — White House sees it, public can’t — paralleling immodesty moral panics among elites.