INVENTORY OF THE PAPERS OF
PARK ELLIOTT DIETZ FOR THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S COMMISSION ON PORNOGRAPHY

MSS 86-1a

University of Virginia Law Library
Charlottesville, VA 22901
434-924-3023

Processed by Michael Graham
July 1989

INTRODUCTION

Park Elliott Dietz (A.B. Cornell; M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) joined the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law in 1982, serving simultaneously as medical director of the University's Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. In 1988 he moved to California to practice and teach psychiatry. In 1985, while at the University, he was appointed by then-Attorney General Edwin Meese to serve on the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (AGCP). The commission conducted a year-long study of the effects of pornography in the United States, and made a number of recommendations in its report, published in July 1986. Most of this collection relates to Dietz' tenure on the commission. At the end of the commission's tenure, the Department of Justice gave Dietz a collection of pornographic literature which had been used in the commission's work. He deposited that collection with the Law Library in 1986, and, upon his 1988 departure from the University, donated it to the library, along with the materials comprising this particular collection. These research materials were removed from the collection in 1996.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection of 16 boxes (6.7 linear feet), contains material dating as far back as 1973, and as recently as 1988, but most of it was produced during the AGCP's tenure in 1985-86, and includes commission memoranda, correspondence, transcripts of testimony, reports prepared for the commission, and various drafts of portions of the final report written by the commissioners themselves. Approximately three-quarters of these papers came to the library unfoldered.

In processing, a distinction has been made between official AGCP materials and Dietz' personal files, most of which related to the commission's work as well. This distinction was at times hard to maintain, but in general the papers in containers 1-10 are either material distributed to all commissioners as part of the AGCP's official business, or correspondence between the commissioners and with outsiders relating to the commission's work. The submissions and testimony from the various public hearings are particularly voluminous, as are the reports concerning the role played by organized crime in the distribution of pornography.

The first four folders in container 11 relate to the reaction generated by the report and the commission's deliberations, primarily from those opposed. The rest of container 11 and the remainder of the collection comprises material collected by Dietz but not necessarily sent to all commissioners or even related to the commission's work. These include correspondence of Dietz and his wife Laura, particularly after the AGCP report had been released, and materials relating to the ongoing campaign against pornography in which Laura Dietz appears to have taken a special interest. The last two folders in container 15 and all of container 16 hold clippings, some specifically relating to the commission or its report, and some more generally related to pornography.

CONTAINER LIST

BOX NUMBER
Files of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography:

1	1985-86; [Commission Memoranda]
	1985-86; [Correspondence to Commission]
	1985-86; [Correspondence within Commission]
	1985-86; [Correspondence: Miscellaneous]
	1985-86; [Correspondence from Citizens]
	1985-86; [Member Lists, Expenses]
	1985; Pre-Washington, D.C. [June 1985] Materials
	1986; [Press Conferences]
	1985; Press Instructions
	1986; [Work Session Agendae]

2	1985, June; [Washington, D.C. Hearing]
	1985, June; Washington, D.C.
	1985, June; Washington, D.C., June 17-20
	1985, July; Chicago Meeting [Dietz absent]
	1985, September; Houston Hearings (3 folders)

3	1985, October; Los Angeles Hearings (3 folders)

4	1985, November; Miami Hearings (3 folders)
	1986, January; New York City Hearings (2 folders)

5	1986; [Ancillary Materials for NYC Meeting]
	1986, February; Scottsdale Hearings (2 folders)
	1986; Child Pornography (2 folders)
	1985-86; [Court Decisions]

6	1986; 1986 Data Collected by Police (3 Folders)
	1985; Dial-a-Porn
	1979; [FBI Tape Transcript]
	1985-87; [Miscellaneous Reports, Testimony]

7	1980, 1984-86, n.d.; [Pornography Research Papers, Reports] (3 folders)

7, 8	1977-81, 1984-85, n.d.; [Organized Crime] (3 folders)

8	1984-86; [Prosecutions: Material from M. Cohen] (3 folders)
	1986; Social Science Findings [also includes correspondence, clippings] (2 folders)
9	1985; [Reuben Sturman: Investigative Report and Indictment]
	1986; Television/Radio
	1985-86; ["Victim's" Testimonials]
	1986; Personal Statement for AGCP [Dietz]
	1986; Personal Statements [Other Commission members]
	1986; [Fred Schauer's Draft Report] (2 folders)
	1986; Schauer Draft [Annotated] (2 folders)

10	1986; [Various Drafts] (4 folders)

11	1986; AGPC Distribution/Reaction
	1986-88; Media Coalition [Critical of Report]
	1986; AGPC: Opposition Campaign
	1986-87; Playboy, Penthouse Lawsuit]

Dietz' Personal Files Relating Primarily to AGCP Work:

11	1985; American Sunbathing Association
	1985; [Ancillary Materials: Miscellaneous]
	1985-88; [Anti-Pornography Groups]
	1986-87; [Article Manuscripts]
	1985; [Bible Advocate
	1985; [Bradshaw to Dobson: Letters]

12	1988; [Child Pornography]
	1986; Child Pornography: Case of Glen Foster
	1986; Child Pornography and Pedophilia Report: U.S. Senate
	1986-88; Citizens For Decency Through Law
	1986; Clinical Psychology News Interview
	1985-86; [Correspondence: Park Dietz to June 1986]
	1986-87; [Correspondence: Park Dietz after June 1986]
	1986-87; [Correspondence: Laura Dietz]
	1987; [Correspondence with Diana Russell]
	1987; Correspondence with Dr. L. Smith
	1983-85; [Civil Rights Approach Against Pornography]

13	1985; [Criminal Justice Information]
	1973, 1987-88; [Dietz: Non-Pornography Work]
	1986; Laura Dietz: Junior League of Richmond
	1985-86; Feminists
	1982, 1985; [Freedom of Expression Issues]
	1984; First Amendment
	1986; [Justice Department on Missing Children]
	1985-86; Koskoff, H.: Film: "The Porning of America"
	1982, 1984; [Magazines: Assorted (3)]
	1978, 1982, 1984, n.d.; [Magazines: Bondage]
14	1978, 1979, 1983; [Magazines: Playboy] (2 folders)
	1985-88; [Mail Solicitations]
	1985-87; [Michael McManus]
	1977-78; [Dottie Meyer in Penthouse]
	n.d.; [Miscellaneous Notes, etc]
	1984-86; National Christian Association
	1986; [National Coalition Against Pornography, Inc.]
	1986; National Conference of State Legislators, New Orleans [May, 1986]

15	n.d.; [Ongoing Campaign Against Pornography]
	1985; Playboy Cartoon Studies]
	1985; Presentencing, Mann Act
	1985-86, 1988; [Press Releases]
	1986; Religious Alliance Against Pornography
	1986; Rutledge Hill Press
	1979; [Schauer Articles]
	1985; [Sex Education]
	1986; Speech: Pornography and Health
	1986; TV Media
	1986-88; [Violence and Sex]
	1986-87; [Zewe Case: U.S. Brief]

15,16	1978-(1986-87)-1988; [Assorted Clippings] (4 folders)

16	1977-85; Newspaper Clippings/Popular Literature (2 folders)
	1986; [Media Reaction to Report] (2 folders)