" I simply had to protect Our Lord ," said Mrs Whitehouse at the time, though both the Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan and Cardinal Basil Hume declined Whitehouse's invitation for them to give evidence at the trial.

However, both sides claimed a victory ; Whitehouse's side asserted that the important legal point had been made with the ruling on the applicability of the Sexual Offences Act, while Bogdanov said it was because she knew that he would not be convicted.

" This contributed to Whitehouse's negative image of Pink Floyd, whom she thought to be promoting sex and drugs.

In the private prosecution Whitehouse's counsel claimed Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956, which described the offence of " procuring an act of gross indecency ", was applicable.

* My mother was a snob, says Mary Whitehouse's son

In this atmosphere, Whitehouse's National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association was able to campaign in support of the Bill and present a petition bearing 1, 600, 000 signatures to 10 Downing Street.

This move was welcomed by a great many MPs, Governors of the BBC, Churchmen and Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association, as Greene was regarded, by the conservative minded, as a man of low moral fibre and as the person responsible for the increasing volume of sex and violence on television.

But Whitehouse's prosecution was withdrawn by her own legal team when it became obvious that it would not succeed.

Whitehouse's supporters have asserted that the Whitehouse campaigns helped end Channel 4's " red triangle " series of films in 1986 ; claimed by Channel 4 to be intended to warn viewers of material liable to cause offence, the broadcasting of these films with the triangle had also received criticism from non-supporters of Whitehouse.

Whitehouse's inadequate apparatus had to be replaced by Thomson's more sensitive mirror galvanometer but Whitehouse then ruined the cable by delivering massive shocks of 2, 000 volts in an attempt to rectify the problems.

The board recruited the physicist William Thomson ( later Lord Kelvin ), who had publicly disputed some of Whitehouse's claims.

It has been claimed though, by commentators not necessarily in agreement with her, that Whitehouse's efforts played a part in the passage of the Protection of Children Act 1978, the Indecent Displays ( Control ) Act 1981, which concerned sex shops, and the Video Recordings Act 1984 which banned ' video nasties '.

The irony of Whitehouse's comment has been noted, given the later revelations of Tynan's fetish for flagellation.

Langham claimed he downloaded this material as research for a character in the second series of Help, but Whitehouse's testimony only partially corroborated this explanation.

Whitehouse's main early influences were the sketches of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and the Monty Python crew.

** Mary Whitehouse's private prosecution of The Romans in Britain collapses.

Thatcher performed a short sketch with Eddington and Hawthorne on 20 January 1984 at a ceremony where the writers were presented with an award from Mary Whitehouse's NVLA, an event commemorated on the cover of the satirical magazine Private Eye.

Whitehouse's critics responded quickly.

The BBC ordered the series ' next producer, Graham Williams, to lighten the tone and reduce the violence and horror following Whitehouse's complaints.

Whitehouse's early campaign and her disagreements with the BBC under Sir Hugh Greene were the basis of a drama first broadcast in 2008 entitled Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, written by Amanda Coe.

The Scotsman, in 2008, while asking whether society might have benefited from Whitehouse's campaign, also pointed to this case when it said " Whitehouse ’ s views on homosexuality were extraordinarily prejudiced.

Mary Whitehouse's costs of £ 7, 763 were ordered to be paid four-fifths by Gay News Ltd and one-fifth by Lemon.

Upon the final days of the very false " Video Nasties " scandal by Mary Whitehouse's campaign with the DPP between 1982 – 1984, Scream comic seemed to be in the same line of fire.

Cyrus West Field recruited Whitehouse as chief electrician to the Atlantic Telegraph Company ; Thomson subsequently became scientific advisor, convinced that Whitehouse's theories were wrong but believing him to have the practical skill to make the scheme work.

* Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse ( 1816-1890 ) Website on Whitehouse's life and work, with transcripts of publications and documents on his role as Electrician of the 1857 / 58 Atlantic Cable project.

When Bennett dissolved Come in 1980 to form Whitehouse, Come Organisation continued to release his work, serving as the label for all of Whitehouse's albums from its inception through 1985's Great White Death.

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

" This account appears to be based on the testimony of Kidd's crewmen Joseph Palmer and Robert Bradinham at his trial.

After the execution, the Queen ordered Bacon to write the official government account of the trial, which was later published as A DECLARATION of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his Complices, against her Majestie and her Kingdoms ... after Bacon's first draft was heavily edited by the Queen and her ministers.

Thomas testified that she does not have a Kazaa account, but her testimony was complicated by the fact that she had replaced her computer's hard drive after the alleged downloading took place, and later than she originally said in a deposition before the trial.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

Mainly because of Clarence Darrow, this strategy changed as the trial progressed, and the earliest argument proposed by the defense once the trial had begun was that there was actually no conflict between evolution and the creation account in the Bible ; later, this viewpoint would be called theistic evolution.

In arguing before the Supreme Court, Gitlow contended that " the statute as construed and applied by the trial court penalize the mere utterance, as such, of ' doctrine ' having no quality of incitement, without regard to the circumstances of its utterance or to the likelihood of the unlawful sequences " While acknowledging " liberty of expression ' is not absolute ,'" he maintained " it may be restrained ' only in instances where its exercise bears a causal relation with some substantive evil, consummated, attempted or likely '" As the statute took no account of the circumstances under which the offending literature was written, it violated the First Amendment.

* Full & authentic report of the Tilak trial ( 1908 ) being the only authorised verbatim account of the whole proceedings with introduction and character sketch of Bal Gangadhar Tikak: Together with press opinion, 1908, Narsinha Chintaman Kelkar

Included in the former is Reinhard Hauff's 1986 account of the Stammheim trial, Margarethe von Trotta's 1981 Marianne and Juliane and Uli Edel's 2008 film The Baader Meinhof Complex.

We do know, however, that in 952, the same year that Eirik began his second term at York, Wulfstan was arrested and stood on trial in Iudanbyrig ( unknown ) on account of several unspecified allegations which had been repeatedly brought before Eadred.

Whistler published his account of the trial in the pamphlet Whistler v. Ruskin: Art and Art Critics, included in his later The Gentle Art of Making Enemies ( 1890 ), in December 1878, soon after the trial.

Consumer accounts could be bought in most computer stores ( a box with an instruction manual and a trial account login ) and awareness of this service was extremely high.

* Callistratus of Aphidnae, an Athenian orator and general, and the Athenian general, Chabrias, are brought to trial in Athens on account of the refusal of the Thebans to surrender the city of Oropus, which on Callistratus ' advice the Thebans have been allowed to occupy temporarily.

The discovery of Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians in 1890 reversed this trend for the broad assessment of Theramenes ' character, and Diodorus ' account of the Arginusae trial has been preferred by scholars since Antony Andrewes undermined Xenophon's account in the 1970s ; Diodorus ' more melodramatic passages, such as his elaborate presentation of Theramenes ' last moments, are still discounted, but he is now preferred on a number of issues, and on the Arginusae trial in particular.

Among Camden's other works are a Greek grammar, which remained a standard school textbook for many years ; Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine ( 1605 ), a more popular English-language companion to Britannia, comprising a collection of themed historical essays ; the official account of the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters ; and a catalogue of the epitaphs at Westminster Abbey.

Gross ’ principal sources were first, an account which Szmul Wasersztajn, a Jewish survivor from Jedwabne, had filed in 1945 with the Jewish Historical Institute ( żydowski instytut historyczny, ZIH ) in Poland ; and secondly, the investigation depositions and trial records of the 1949-1950 trials.

* The first section ( 1 – 11 ) contains a fanciful and dramatic circumstantial account of the trial of Jesus, based upon.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchel Goodman and Marcus Raskin, an account of the five men's 1970 trial on charges of conspiracy to violate the draft laws, followed by a harsh critique of the American prison system entitled Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business ( 1973 ), an allusion to the phrase " cruel and unusual punishment ".

Later, while on trial at Nuremberg, he wrote his account of Soviet prison which was published in Switzerland.

A detailed account of the trial is presented by Biafra on his second spoken word album, High Priest of Harmful Matter − Tales from the Trial.