General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002. Selected Passport Applications, 1910 - 1977. Bruce, Lenny. Passport Application for Lenny Bruce, 4/13/1962

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General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002. Selected Passport Applications, 1910 - 1977. Bruce, Lenny. Passport Application for Lenny Bruce, 4/13/1962

1962

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This passport application was filed in April 1962 in anticipation of a thirty-day trip to England for theatrical engagements. The application includes a photograph of Lenny Bruce.

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Bruce, Lenny, 1925-1966

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Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), known professionally as Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, freestyle and critical form of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York State, by Governor George Pataki in 2003. Bruce paved the way for counterculture era c...