Posted: Feb 23, 2020 6:03 am
Operation Dark Heart, memoir by Anthony Shaffer (by the U. S. Dept. of Defense)[edit]
On September 20, 2010 the Pentagon bought[259] and burned[260] 9,500 copies of Operation Dark Heart, nearly all the first run copies for supposedly containing classified information
Harry Potter books (in various American cities)[edit]
There have been several incidents of Harry Potter books being burned, including those directed by churches at Alamogordo, New Mexico and Charleston, South Carolina in 2006.[239] More recently books have been burnt in response to J.K. Rowling's comments on Donald Trump.[240] See Religious debates over the Harry Potter series.
Berkeley book burning[edit]
In 2001, UC Berkeley students burned copies of Daniel J. Flynn's book on Mumia Abu-Jamal after verbally shouting him down during his scheduled speech.[234]
Comic book burnings, 1948[edit]
In 1948, children – overseen by priests, teachers, and parents – publicly burned several hundred comic books in both Spencer, West Virginia, and Binghamton, New York. Once these stories were picked up by the national press wire services, similar events followed in many other cities.[197]
most would have been purchased
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... _incidents