Burning The Grapes of Wrath

Left to right: Bill Camp, a Kern County farmer and Kern County Associated Farmers head, Clell Pruett, and L. E. Plymale, Kern County cotton grower, gin operator and Associated Farmers board member. They are burning a copy of The Grapes of Wrath. Pruett was a Missouri migrant who got on his feet working for Mr Camp and had heard Ruth Comfort Mitchell's 'Pro America' broadcast excoriating The Grapes of Wrath the week before. Pruett asked Camp if there was anything he could do to help. Camp asked Pruett to burn the book in public, and Pruett willingly obliged.The original of this scan can be found on pg. 151 in "Obscene in the Extreme" by Rick Wartzman, at PS 3537 .T3234 G895 2008.