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Originally Posted by T@T
Just guessing but those type of pecks were probably done before Sammy did it.
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When Sammy did it, they say it was carefully planned so that there wouldn't be enough time to do a re-take. We're talking about just a year or so after the Jim Crow laws were revoked, small pecks were still controversial.
The white Clark and the black Harry Belafonte had a controversial duet in 1968 that Chrysler, the sponsor of the show, didn't want it to be shown. The reason? They touched arms.
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Originally Posted by T@T
Shatners had passion that apparently wasn't seen before.
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And arguably was still not shown. Last I heard Shatner denied they actually touched lips.
There had also been other interracial kisses between other races before, heck before Shatner kissed Nichols he had already kissed Vietnamese France Nuyen. And more importantly UK television had broadcast a romantic kiss between a white and black couple in 1964 on the television show Emergency - Ward 10.
It's more accurately described as the first
scripted interracial kiss
between a white and black couple on
American television.