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echo: startrek
to: ZORCH FREZBERG
from: MICHAEL MAREK
date: 1997-12-31 08:20:00
subject: Star Trek Facts

 PA>> ...and, of course, _Star Trek_ showed the first kiss on American
 PA>> TV between a white man and a black woman.
 ZF> Nope.  Sorry.  The first interracial kiss actually occurred in 1954 
,
 ZF> on an American sit-com carried live on network television, and was seen 
by
 ZF> nearly 12 million people across the US.
 ZF> And now, the title escapes me, but it was about a black maid working in 

 ZF> white home...title was the name of the lead character..."Marigold"?
Actually, I believe it was a drama.  At least, it was a tender moment,
and not one done for laughs.
I also think that Teresa Brewer's kiss of James Garner on Laugh-In is
*one* of the most prominent early interracial kisses on American TV.  It
was impromptu, but given that Laugh-In ofended everybody, sooner or
later, the censors let it through.
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