Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore, was charged with obscenity for

a. publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
b. hosting an Allan Kaprow Happening.
c. selling copies of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
d. hosting Beat poetry readings.


Answer: a

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