Dozens of students from Pratt Institute, an art college in Brooklyn, took part in the protest rally. Richard Kussmaul, a retired florist, said he came after seeing a leaflet posted. This made me so angry I had to come out and protest censorship. I choose what I want to see. The Nazis banned 'degenerate' art.
Censorship is dangerous.
Speakers included several Congressmen and local politicians, as well as artists and other supporters of civil liberties. There was also a small counter protest of about half a dozen during the rally. They knew what they were doing. Both the museum's director and the chairman of its board are Jewish. In his weekly radio broadcast September 24, Giuliani made a more veiled appeal to anti-Semitism.