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August 3, 1966: Pioneering comedian and free-speech warrior Lenny Bruce died

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Pioneering comedian and free-speech warrior Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) died on this date in 1966 at age 40 from a drug overdose. In the early 1950s he worked a double-act with his wife,...