Film for Compulsory Sterilization from the 1930s (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Reference)
David Beito • Friday, March 23, 2012
In this disturbing 1934 propaganda film for eugenics, “Tomorrows Children,” the judge ordering a sterilization paraphrases “progressive,” Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s infamous line from the majority opinion in Buck v. Bell: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
