A Selective Timeline of Art Censorship in the U.S.A.: 1995

The U.S. Senate narrowly rejects a Constitutional Flag Protection Amendment.

A Raleigh, NC gallery bows to pressure from the City Council and boots Elin Slavick's work containing female nudes from a show.The Barnwell County Museum in South Carolina asks painter Robert Sherer to remove his paintings of nude men. In Ruidoso, NM an artist sculpting a nude male and female in her driveway is charged with displaying sexually explicit materials to minors.

Under extensive pressure from the Air Force Association and Congress, The Smithsonian Institution cancels a controversial program planned by The National Air and Space Museum. The program, The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II, questions whether the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was necessary, and features photos and artifacts belonging to the victims. Instead of the planned exhibition, the restored forward fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb, is put on display from 1995-1998.

The Fuselage of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum