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His career ended abruptly in October 1960 when his [[wikipedia:New York City Cabaret Card|cabaret card]] was seized by New York City police just before he was to appear on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', supposedly because of an arrest for marijuana possession twenty years earlier. (A necessity in order to work legally in NYC entertainment venues in that era, cabaret cards were often seized for political reasons and/or to extort payoffs from performers.) Despite massive support from the entertainment and arts world, his attempts to have his card reinstated came to naught, and he died of a stroke in November of the same year.
The scandal of Buckley's death, attributed at least partly to his loss of the card, helped lead to the removal of NYC Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy in 1961 and the abolition of the cabaret card system by 1967, some
For more information, you may consider visiting [http://www.lordbuckley.com/ the Lord Buckley website] and [http://www.airbrushmuseum.com/wig_bubbles.htm "Wig Bubbles" at airbrushmuseum.com].
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