Jack Thompson Biography

Raised in Ohio Thompson earned his B.A. at Denison University and his J.D. at Vanderbilt University Law School (1976). He has been practicing law in Miami Florida since 1977 as a personal injury (medical malpractice) attorney. He has been a stay-at-home father for his young son and he has seen firsthand the influence of television for example on his own child.
He has been actively and prominently involved in First Amendment issues since 1987 and he has discussed his work on such programs as Nightline Good Morning America 48 Hours Oprah and others. His accomplishments in this arena include securing the first decency fines ever levied by the Federal Communications Commission in American history in a case against three shock radio stations.
He also served as the court-appointed amicus curiae in the 2 Live Crew federal obscenity trial which resulted in the first verdict in American history declaring a sound recording to be obscene. His role in the case spawned a successful 130-campus university debate and lecture tour on the issue of prosecuting obscenity in our popular culture and entertainment including music. During the tour Thompson debated such liberal luminaries as Nadine Strossen (president of the American Civil Liberties Union) and Bob Guccione Jr. (publisher of SPIN magazine) on First Amendment issues and on the link between sexually violent material and rape. Thompson has represented rape victims whose cases led him to his activism on the issue.

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