I knew that the mix of new social currents, the irresistible force of creators determined to make 'their' films and the possible intrusion of government into the movie arena demanded my immediate action. ... My first move was to abolish the old and decaying Hays Production Code. I did that immediately. Then on November 1, 1968, we announced the birth of the new voluntary film rating system of the motion picture industry ... the emergence of the voluntary rating system filled the vacuum provided by my dismantling of the Hays Production Code. The movie industry would no longer 'approve or disapprove' the content of a film, but we would now see our primary task as giving advance cautionary warnings to parents so that parents could make the decision about the movie-going of their young children.

By summer of 1966, the national scene was marked by insurrection on the campus, riots in the streets, rise in women's liberation, protest of the young, doubts …

The basic mission of the rating system is a simple one: to offer to parents some advance information about movies so that parents can decide what movies they w…

I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.

There had been a head of the FDA (who later turned out to be a fraud) his name was Fishbein and he was rampantly opposed to any alternative therapy. He went af…

'The Great Society Meets the 21st Century,' Orthopedic Technology Review, January 2004, by Michael Johns.

American militarism today is an unintended byproduct of the reaction to the 1960s and Vietnam.