he sent over a couple of policeman to estelle griswold's clinic. and when they arrived, she came bounding out of her office, and she grabbed hold of these two people and she brought them into the office and she set the officers down and for an hour he gave them every little bit of information she possibly could about birth control, all the pamphlets, all the information. she was dredging up every bit of technical knowledge she possibly had throwing it at them. they sat politely, taking notes. and when she was finally done, they all got up at got up and they shook hands and they walked out the door. two weeks later, she got a letter informing her that she was being charged in violation of connecticut's 1879 statute, exactly as she wanted to be. she was convicted, as she knew she would be, in january of 1962 and fined $100 for this enormous crime of distributing birth control. she then appealed that conviction all the way through the state legal system up through the connecticut supreme court. and when she lost, as she was going to do, she then went

four years later this woman estelle griswold got herself arrested. it's still griswold. once upon a time when she was young back in the 1920s. she dreamed of being a professional singer she'd even gone to paris for a couple years to try to make it go of it. didn't quite work out in 1927. she came back home. to her home state of connecticut where she fell in love and married an aspiring ad man? and for the next 30 years or so she trailed along behind his career wherever it took him. 1945 it took him. to germany or the state department had hired him to help with. the occupation of defeated germany and with the reconstruction of western europe after the devastation of the war and she went with and from 1945 to 51 she works herself with a refugee agency an agency trying to help the massive refugee crisis that engulfed europe in the terribly brutal days after the war. and 51 they finally decided to come home. they settled in new haven connecticut came back to connecticut. and for a year or so she continued to work with the refugee agency, but it's headquarters were up in new