{"id":1360,"date":"2012-11-11T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2012-11-04T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T22:41:18","slug":"those-evil-comic-books-1955-tv-show-comics-and-juvenile-delinquency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-history\/those-evil-comic-books-1955-tv-show-comics-and-juvenile-delinquency\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Evil Comic Books! 1955 TV Show &#8211; Comics and Juvenile Delinquency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon this video, aired on October 9, 1955 in LA, about the impact of comic books on youth.  This was all part of the Frederic Wertham &#8220;Seduction of the Innocent&#8221; scare and subsequent hearings.  <\/p>\n<p>At about 5:30 into the video the reporter talks about finding and destroying all the warehoused comic books since they are a lurking threat.  It gets even better at the 8:00 minute mark.  After all, when he was a kid they only made nasty commments about their teachers on the sidewalk with chalk, they didn&#8217;t read comics!  Of course, EC comics and stories hold a prime place in this video.  The music is great!  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GI8IJA8kdkI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon this video, aired on October 9, 1955 in LA, about the impact of comic books on youth. This was all part of the Frederic Wertham &#8220;Seduction of the Innocent&#8221; scare and subsequent hearings. At about 5:30 into the video the reporter talks about finding and destroying all the warehoused comic books since&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-history\/those-evil-comic-books-1955-tv-show-comics-and-juvenile-delinquency\/\">Read the rest of this entry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-book-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}