posted on Jan, 18 2005 @ 09:45 AM
By Stone Phillips
Dateline NBC
Updated: 2:41 p.m. ET April 5, 2004
When he was arrested in 1991 for indecent exposure at an adult movie theater, the star of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Pee-Wee's Playhouse became a
popular punch line. A decade later, no one was laughing when he was arrested again, charged with possession of child pornography. But his lawyer
determined that a tape seized in another case had been mistakenly included in the evidence against Reubens, and soon a plea bargain was in the works.
Last month, the child pornography charge was dropped, with Rubens pleading guilty to a charge of obscenity instead. Now, in a television first, the
man best known as Pee-Wee Herman tells a side of the story you haven't heard -- his side.
Entire Interview
As i remember it, the bust made headlines. Not the '91 bust, the one where he was alleged to have kiddie porn. I stumbled across this link by
accident, was this all over the news also or was it a typical "out for blood" scenario where they didnt vindicate the story when the charges were
droped?