The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture

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Adam Gorightly is best known for his book on the Manson Family, The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos. I had never heard of him before so it was interesting to see his ties to Oswald, and the dwarf planet Eris.

Kerry, in fact, was the first person to whom Bill revealed his sexual orientation, and on one occasion Bill even tried to seduce Kerry, although Kerry turned down his advances. While I don't totally believe that he was 'programmed' (although the CIA DID experiment with LSD and mind control), I do believe that a simple answer could be found in the combination of his high-strung, energetic personality AND his consumption of drugs, especially LSD. Nearby was the Friendly Hills development, where there were more orange groves, affording plenty of territory for kids to roam. The author suggests that KT may very well have been an MKULTRA prodigy along with Lee Harvey Oswald himself since they were both in the marines together and stationed in Japan prior to 1963.He achieved this, notably, not by preaching to the converted or by humorlessly attacking those with whom he disagreed, but by constructing elegant intellectual games that he presented with such a straight face that you weren’t sure whether or not he was kidding. Recently I've come across more information on "brother-in-law" aka Gary Kirstein and his partner in crime, Slim Brooks. After the assassination Thornley told Spencer that he was going to be a rich man because of the coincidence of Oswald having been the subject of his book. I spoke to an FBI agent in the Federal Building who kept pretending he didn't understand what I was talking about.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. K erry Wendell Thornley is known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Gregory Hill) of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. I also believe that you could’ve played up the chaotic effects of “The Jake That Changed The World” and the ensuing Eristic “debate” (more accurately, WAR) surrounding Pluto’s legitimacy as a “planet”. The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture 0. I replied I didn't think too much of Communism" and he said, "Well, I think the best religion is Communism.Alden has professionally published news/sports/humorous/and feature articles, poems, columns, reviews, stories, scripts, books, and school lunch menus. Little did he know that his friend, Lee Harvey Oswald, would later be accused of assassinating President John F.

Among these was the subject of how one might assassinate President Kennedy, whose beliefs and policies the aspiring novelist deeply disliked at the time.Guy Banister, another Minutemen member in New Orleans, had been accused by Garrison of involvement in the assassination and was allegedly connected to Lee Harvey Oswald through the Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflet.

Your biography on here leads me to suspect you are familiar with the works of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, to some extent. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The phrase Principia Discordia, reminiscent of Isaac Newton's 1687 Principia Mathematica, is presumably intended to mean Discordant Principles, or Principles of Discordance. Of course, none of this should detract from the appeal of the book, which is very well-written and downright fascinating. to be interviewed for my book, although she did hook me up with a few other important players in the story, who I interviewed.However, the Kennedy Assassination--though obviously an important event in the storyline--is only one sub plot of many that appear. He was also a key player in the history if independent zines, printing his own one-page "wall newspapers" in the mid-'70s, well before the zine craze caught on in the '80s.