Jim Spagg [SEP] cause of death
program ran during the day. Despite public outcry to remove his program from Portland Cable Access, it was not possible due to freedom of speech protection for public-access programming. Spagg frequently defended his program as art, and appeared on KATU's "Town Hall" program where he defended his right to appear nude on television as freedom of speech. He was also featured on the national television news show "A Current Affair".
Jim Spagg died of leukemia on May 8, 2004 at the age of 64 in
Jim Spagg
James Spaggnola (July 29, 1939 – May 8, 2004), known as Jim Spagg, was a U.S. artist and host of a controversial Public-access television cable TV program in Portland, Oregon, United States from 1991 to 2003.
Spagg was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Catholic school.
Public-access television program.
In the early 1990s, Spagg attracted local and national media attention with "Jim Spagg's Sex Show", a call-in cable TV