ABSTRACT
Slaughterhouse-Five, first published in 1966 during the Vietnam War, has been targeted for banning or burning ever since.2 In 1973, for instance, three dozen paperback copies of the novel were burned by the school superintendent and board members in Drake, North Dakota, after a high school sophomore complained about the profanity (Veix, 1975). Two years earlier a circuit court judge in Michigan told an area high school to ban the book or he would order it done himself because it was a “degradation of the person of Christ” and full of “repetitious obscenity and immorality” (Banning of Billy, 1971, p. 681).
