PART 4: CHAPTER 11

Witnesses Testifying Before the Commission

The Commission wishes to express its gratitude and appreciation to the following people who have appeared in person before us and rendered testimony. The information these people have provided the Commission is invaluable and serves as a substantial data base for this report.

Washington, D.C. -- June 19, 1985

• Lois H. Herrington, Assistant Attorney General for Justice Programs in the
  Department of Justice.
• Kenneth Lanning, Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned to the behavioral sciences unit at Quantico, Virginia. He has been involved in the study of deviant sex crimes and sexual victimization since 1972.
• David, 17 years old, participated in Straight, Inc., a drug rehabilitation program, and the victim of sexual abuse.
• Senator Mitch McConnell, Kentucky. Senator McConnell serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Agriculture Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He has served as chairman of the Kentucky Task Force on Exploited and Missing Children.
• Lisa, 21 years old, a resident of Baltimore. She was once a nude dancer and has been involved in video pornography.
• Representative Frank R. Wolf, loth District of Virginia, serves on the Appropriations Committee and the House Select Committee on children, Youth and Families.
• Sharon, formerly married to a medical professional who is an avid consumer of pornography.
• Dr. Dennis M. Harrison, psychologist who practices in the area of forensic and clinical psychology. He has been engaged in private practice for eleven years.
• Senator Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania, is chairman of the Subcommittee on juvenile Justice of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is the co-chairman of the Senate Children's Caucus. Senator Jeremiah Denton, Alabama, is a member of the
• Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the Armed Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee. He serves as chairman for the Subcommittee on Terrorism.
• Patricia Foscato, social worker and coordinator of a sex abuse prevention project for St. Anne's Institute in Albany, New York. She also maintains a private practice in psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults.Bonnie, 31, mother of two daughters. She has been sexually abused by each of her two husbands who consumed pornography.
• Michelle, 11, sexually abused by her father and her stepfather who were pornography consumers.
• Debbie, 13, sexually abused by her father and her stepfather who were pornography consumers.
• Charles R. Clauson, Chief Postal Inspector, United States Postal Inspection Service.
• Jack Swagerty, Assistant Chief Postal Inspector, United States Postal Inspection Service.
• Daniel Harrington, General Manager, United States Postal Inspection Service.
• Daniel Mihalko, Postal Inspector, New York, United States Postal Inspection Service.
• Jeff, 20 years old, was sexually molested and is currently a participant in Straight, Inc., a drug rehabilitation program.
• Sarah Wynter, former prostitute and victim of sexual abuse who was forced to participate in pornographic films.
• Dorchen Leidholt, a founder of Women Against Pornography.
• Valerie Heller, victim of sexual abuse as a child. She is currently affiliated with the organization, Victims of Incest Can Emerge as Survivors (VOICES).
• Kandy Stroud, journalist and has been chief diplomatic correspondent for Cable News Network and a concerned parent.
• Reverend Jeff Ling, Associate Pastor at New Covenant Fellowship in Manassas, Virginia, serves as consultant to the Parent's Music Resource Center.
• Harry N. Hollis, Jr., Associate Executive Director of Family and Special Moral Concerns of the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Washington, D.C. -- June 20, 1985

• Dr. C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Bill, convicted of the sexual molestation of two adolescent females.
• Ann Wolbert Burgess, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the Department of Health and Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts.
• John, victim of child sex ring in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Tom, brother of child sex ring victim.
• Dr. Robert Prentke, Chief Psychologist and Director of Research at the Massachusetts treatment center of sexually dangerous persons.
• Judge William H. Webster, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Dennis DeBord, Investigator with the vice section of the Fairfax County, Virginia Police Department.
• Patricia Powers, Psychiatric Nurse Clinician and Director of an in-processing unit of Psychiatric patients in a large private hospital.
• Betty Berneman,News Director for a majorradio station WWDB, in Philadelphia.
• Reverend Richard C. Halverson, Chaplain of the United States Senate.
• Ingrid Horton, President of Society's League Against Molestation in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland.
• Barry Lynn, Legislative Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
• Isabelle Pinzler, Director of the Women's Rights Project to the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation.
• Lillian BeVier, the Dougherty Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.
• Senator Dennis DeConcini, Arizona, a member of the judiciary Committee and ranking member of the Constitution Subcommittee.
• Senator William V. Roth, Delaware, Chairman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Permanent Committee on Investigations.
• Cora Lynn Goldsborough, Psychologist specializing in the treatment of sexual abuse. Susan, victim of sexual abuse.
• Richard W. Miller, Associate Commissioner of the United States Customs Service.
• John Forbes, Special Agent, Customs Attache Office in Bonn, Germany.
• Townsend Hoopes, President of the Association of American Publishers.
• George, former psychiatrist convicted of sexually molesting three juvenile patients.
• Deborah Chalfie, District of Columbia Feminists Against Pornography.
• Martha Langelan, District of Columbia Feminists Against Pornography.
• Fern Waterman, family physician specializing in psychiatry with an emphasis on the psychotherapy of children in high crime or high stress communities.

Chicago, Illinois -- July 24, 1985

• Thomas Bohling, Detective, Chicago Police Department, organized crime division, vice control section.
• George Bizek, Lieutenant, Chicago Police Department.
• Diann, Homemaker, Minnesota, married to an avid consumer of pornography.
• Donald Smith, Sergeant, Los Angeles County Police Department, Supervisory Investigator of Pornography Unit.
• Duncan McDonald, vice-president of Citicorp and general counsel for retail services division.
• Paul McGeady, General Counsel for Morality in Media and Director of the National Obscenity Law Center.
• Harold Mills, Lieutenant, Cincinnati, Ohio, Police Department, Commander of Vice Section. Jack O'Malley, Special Agent, United States Customs Service.
• Andrew P. Weisner, Lieutenant, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Police Department, Vice President of Eastern States Vice Investigators Association.
• David Techter, member, Lewis Carroll Collectors Guild.
• Evelyn, Mother and homemaker, Wisconsin, formerly married to an avid customer of pornography.
• Geoffrey Stone, Harry Kalven, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
• Beverly Lynch, President, American Library Association.
• Joan Weber, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of  California in San Diego.
• Jane Whicher, Staff Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
• Thomas Blee, Attorney, a member of Citizens for Decency Through Law, Indianapolis, Indiana. Cass Sunstein, Professor, University of Chicago Law School.
• Pam Dorres, Chicago Feminist Ad Hoc Pornography Group.
• Nettie Sabin, Feminist Community Activist in Chicago, Illinois.
• Peter Petruzzellis, Sergeant, Toronto, Canada, Metropolitan Police Department.
• Robert Sklodowski, Judge, Criminal Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
• Jeremy Margolis, Inspector General of the State of Illinois.
• Brenda Miller Mackillop, former Playboy Bunny.
• Brad Curl, President, National Christian Organization.

Chicago, Illinois -- July 25, 1985

• Burton Joseph, Special Counsel with Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
• Frederick J. Scullin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York.
• Bernard J. Malone, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York in Albany.
• John Ruberti, Inspector, United States Postal Service.
• Jack Swagerty, Assistant Chief Postal Inspector for Criminal Investigation.
• Raymond Oldham, Regional Chief Postal Inspector for the Central Region.
• Dr.Frank Osanka, President of Behavioral Consultants and Therapists, Naperville, Illinois.
• Mary Steinman, sexual abuse victim.
• Nan Hunter, Founder of the Feminist Anticensorship Task Force.
• Steve Goldsmith; District Attorney, Indianapolis, Indiana.
• Catherine MacKinnon, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota and former Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles.
• Terese Stanton, co-founder of the Pornography Resource Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Hinson McAuliffe, former Solicitor General for Fulton County, Georgia.
• John Dugan, Detective, Buffalo, New York, Police Department.
• Larry Parrish, Attorney, former Assistant United States Attorney from the Western District of Tennessee in Memphis.
• H. Robert Showers, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina in Raleigh.
• Paul McCommon, Legal Counsel for Citizens for Decency Through Law, in Phoenix, Arizona.
• James S. Reynolds, Principal Deputy Chief of the General Litigation and Legal Advice section of the Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice.
• Michael G. Krzewinski, Detective, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Police Department.

Houston, Texas -- September 11, 1985

• Edward Donnerstein, Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
• W. D. Brown, Sergeant, Houston, Texas, Police Department, Obscenity Division of the Vice Squad.
• S.R. Andrews, Houston, Texas, Police Department, Vice Squad.
• D.E. Elder, Houston, Texas, Police Department, Vice Squad.
• W.W. Bollier, Houston, Texas, Police Department Vice Squad.
• Linda, resident of Texas, formerly married to avid consumer of pornography.
• Neil Malamuth, Professor and Chair of the Communications Studies Program at University of California at Los Angeles.
• Jennings Bryant, Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio and Television, School of Communications at the University of Houston.
• Dr. Richard Green, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
• Wendy Stock, Assistant Professor at Texas A & M University and sex therapist.
• Don Byrne, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany.
• Kathryn Kelley, Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany.
• Donald Mosher, Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut.
• Diana Russell, Professor of Sociology, Mills College, Oakland, California.
• Victor Cline, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Utah.
• Paul Abramson, Associate Professor of Psychology at University of California at Los Angeles.

Houston, Texas -- September 12, 1985

• John Court, Clinical Psychologist and Director of Spectrum Psychological Counseling Center.
• John Money, Professor of Medical Psychology and Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.
• Diana Scully, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Dan, former consumer of pornography.
• Dr. Gene Abel, Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
• William Marshall, Professor, Department of Psychology at Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
• Dr. Mary Calderone, co-founder, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States.
• Ann Welbourne-Moglia, Executive Director of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States.
• Larry Baron, Lecturer, Department of Sociology at Yale University.
• Dr. C. A. Tripp, New York Psychotherapist and contributor to Forum magazine.

Los Angeles, California -- October 16. 1985

• James Docherty, Captain, Los Angeles Police Department, Commanding Officer of the Administrative Vice Division.
• Robert Peters, Detective, Los Angeles Police Department, Administrative Vice Division.
• William Roberts, Detective, Los Angeles Police Department.
• Mary, actress and performer in pornography industry.
• George, performer in pornography industry.
• Chris, performer in pornography industry.
• Ken Gillingham, Detective, Kentucky State Police, Special Investigations Unit.
• Randall Gibbs, Detective, Kentucky State Police, Special Investigations Unit.
• John Weston, Attorney, Adult Film Association of America.
• Dr.Ted McIlvenna, President, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.
• Dr. Loretta Haroian, Dean of Professional Studies, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.
• Brent D. Ward, United States Attorney, Utah. William Dunkle, General Manager for the Information Services Business Unit of Pacific Bell. Judith Trevillian, Citizens Against Pornography, Linden, Michigan.
• Brenda Fox, Vice-President and General Counsel, National Cable Television Association.
• James J. Clancy, Attorney, Citizens for Decency Through Law.
• Thomas R. Herwitz, Legal Assistant to the
• Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
• Teresa L. Hillman, Parents Opposed to Pacific Bell's Exploitation of Children.
• Monica Hill, Los Angeles Radical Women.
• William Margold, actor, agent, critic, director and scriptwriter of sexually explicit films.

Los Angeles, California -- October 17, 1985

• Jack Valenti, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America.
• Michael Antonovich, member, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
• Charles Sullivan, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Catherine Goodwin, Assistant United States Attorney, District of Colorado in Denver.
• Dibri Beavers, former editor of Cleveland-based Connection Magazines.
• Miki Garcia, Playboy Playmate, January 1973, former director of Playmate Promotions.
• Caryl Cid, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Brian Cid, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Donal E. Wildmon, Executive Director, National Federation for Decency.
• Joseph Haggerty, Detective, Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, Vice Investigation.
• Charles Dawson, founder and Chairman, Fantasy Unrestricted Network.
• G. Albert Howenstein, Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning for California.
• Margaret Prescod, member, United States Prostitutes Collective.
• Priscilla Alexander, member, COYOTE, National Task Force on Prostitution.
• Matthew Tekulskeywell, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc.
• Angus McKenzie, National Writers Union.
• Dennis Sobin, President, First Amendment Consumer and Trade Society.
• Al Goldstein, President, Milky Way Production, Inc., publisher, Screw Magazine.

Miami Florida -- November 20, 1985

• William Dworin, Detective, Los Angeles Police Department, Sexually Exploited Child Unit.
• Harry James, convicted child pornography producer and distributor.
• Mike Berish, Sergeant, Miami Police Department, Vice Unit.
• Laura and James Brennan, parents of two-and-a-half-year-old daughter who was sexually exploited at a pre-school.
• Paul Hartman, Inspector, United States Postal Service.
• Kenneth J. Herrmann, Jr., President, Defense for Children International.
• John Michael Jupp, Executive Director, Defense for Child internationa.
• Toby Tyler, Deputy Sheriff, San Bernadino, California.
• Richard Lane, Trustee, American Sunbathers Association.
• Dr. Roland Summit, Psychiatrist and founder of the Los Angeles County Child Sexual Abuse Project.
• Robert Northrup, Inspector, United States Postal Service.
• Kenneth Lanning, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Dr.Lore Stone, Psychotherapist, Los Angeles, California.
• William Phelps, Detective, Newark, Ohio, Police Department.

Miami Florida -- November 21, 1985

• Tom Rodgers, Lieutenant, Indianapolis, Indiana, Police Department.
• Garrett Gilbert, child victim of sexual exploitation through the use of pornography.
• Judy  Gilbert, mother of child exploited through the use of pornography.
• Paul Der Ohannesian, Assistant District Attorney, Albany County, New York.
• Barbara Hattemer, Coordinator, Florida Coalition for Clean Cable.
• Dennis Shaw, Lieutenant, Metro Dade Police Department.
• William DeHart, former consumer of child pornography.
• Ken Elsesser, Inspector, United States Postal Service.
• Joyce Karlin, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles.
• Dr.Simon Miranda, Clinical Psychologist, Miami, Florida.
• Larry Madigan, former consumer of pornography.
• William Cassidy, Law Director, North Ridgeville, Ohio.
• Dr. Ulrich Schoettle, Psychiatrist and Clinical Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
• Judith Reisman, Research Professor, School of Education, American University, Washington, D.C.
• Al Danna, Detective, Baltimore, Maryland Police Department, Criminal Investigation Division, Sex Offense Unit.

New York, New York -- January 21, 1986

• James D. Harmon, Jr., Executive Director and Chief Counsel of the President's Commission on Organized Crime.
• Homer E. Young, retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, specializing in investigating pornography and organized crime.
• Linda Marchiano, principal performer in the film "Deep Throat."
• William Kelly, retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and special consultant for Broward County, Florida, Sheriff's Office.
• Edward Chapman, Detective with the Arlington County Police Department assigned to the sex offense unit and detailed to the staff of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography.
• Christopher Mega, New York State Senator and Chairman of the New York Senate Crime and Correction Committee.
• Thomas Bohling, Detective with the Chicago, Illinois, Police Department.
• Marilyn B. Sommers, Administrative and Technical Services manager for the Middle Atlantic Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network (MAGLOCLEN).
• Carl Shoffler, Detective with the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department assigned to the organized crime section of the Intelligence Division.
• Ledra Brady, Supervisor of the Analytical Section of the Intelligence Division of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department.
• Bruce Taylor, General Counsel for Citizens for Decency Through Law.
• Jerome Piazza, Captain and Commanding Officer for the Manhattan South Public Morals Division of the New York City Police Department.

New York, New York -- January 22, 1986

• Marcella Cohen, Special Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of justice, organized crime and racketeering section, assigned to the Strike Force in Miami, Florida.
• Larry Schuchman, investigator with the Orlando, Florida, Police Department, detailed to the Task Force on Narcotics, Vice and Racketeering.
• Sam Currin, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina in Raleigh.
• H. Robert Showers, Assistant United States Attorney and Special Prosecutor for the Eastern District of North Carolina in Raleigh.
• William Johnson, Captain and Commander of the Major Crimes Investigation Division of the Fayetteville, North Carolina, Police Department.
• Andrea Dworkin, author of Men Possessing Women and co-author of legislation recognizing pornography as a violation of the civil rights of women.
• Colleen Dewhurst, performing artist and vice president of the Actor's Equity Association.
• Heather Grant Florence, vice-president and general counsel for Bantam Books, Inc., and chairperson of the Freedom to Read Committee of the Association of American Publishing, Inc.
• J. D. Landis, Bantam Book author.
• Patrick F. Fagan, Executive Vice-President of the Free Research and Education Foundation.
• Most Revered Edward Egan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York and the Vicar for Education.
• Ardeth Kapp, President of the Young Women Program, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
• Harriet Pilpel, General Counsel for Planned Parenthood Foundation of America, Inc., and General Counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union.
• Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and columnist with Penthouse Magazine.
• Dottie Meyer, former Penthouse model and coordinator involved with circulation and Pet productions.
• Loring Mandel, Writer, representing the Writers Guild of America, East, Inc.
• Corrine Jackson, representative of Writers Guild of America, East, Inc.
• June Griffin, Christian Missionary with the Cumberland Missionary Society.
• David Cohen, Executive Officer of the Academic Freedom Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and member of the New York Library Association.
• Father Val J. Peter, Executive Director of Boys Town.
• Lane Sunderland, Associate Professort of Political Science at Knox College specializing in Constitutional Law and Political Theory.
• Daniel Cohen, Chairman of the Jewish Community Affairs Committee of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
• Reverend Stephen J. Mathew, member of the Interfaith Coalition of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
• Jeremiah Gutman, Past president of the New York Civil Liberties Union and vice president of the American Civil Liberties Union.
• Jerry Kirk, Pastor of the College Hill Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, founder of Citizens Concerned about Community Values in Cincinnati, and president of the National Coalition Against Pornography.

NOTE: All biographical information is current as of the date of the individual's testimony.