Martin Blank

i'll give him the benefit of the doubt and credit him with intending to say "prophesying"

The Grateful Dead's lyricist Robert Hunter also participated in the Menlo Park experiments. Later the Dead and Kesey were to hook up via the Acid Tests. The Menlo Park experiments were run by Leo Hollister. The books Storming Heaven and Acid Dreams are both good sources on this and much more. Some of the audiotapes of Kesey from the experiments survive and are used in Magic Trip, the new documentary film about Kesey's cross country bus trip. Kesey attributes a peyote-induced vision to his creation of Chief Bromden. He wrote a good deal of the book while tripping. Some of it he wrote under influence and while on the night shift on the mental ward. His drawings of the inmates appear in the 40th anniversary edition of the novel. Kesey was a great American. He also wrote an eloquent essay on driving through America in the wake of jfk's assassination which i'm trying to find. "Loss of Innocence," Newsweek, November 29, 1983. Kesey's thoughts on the assassination of JFK.

saw it years and years ago on television shortly after my eyes began to open. found a used copy of lane's book and years later a movie poster like the one attached. need to watch it again. i'm sure it must be on dvd by now.

didn't nagell say he was the one who gave oswald the hidell name?

what struck me is how prescient thompson seemed to be

hunter thompson summed up lbj's legacy very nicely: "Johnson did a lot of rotten things in those five bloody years, but when the history books are written he will emerge in his proper role as the man who caused an entire generation of Americans to lose all respect for the Presidency, the White House, the Army, and in fact the whole structure of "government." the beat goes on as they say It was on November 22, 1963 that Hunter Thompson first used the words "fear and loathing," but I can't seem to find the right reference. I believe it is in The Great Shark Hunt Vol. II. The Origin Of "Fear And Loathing" (In a letter to his friend, William Kennedy, Thompson uses the term, "Fear and Loathing", perhaps for the first time, written on the Day John Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas) November, 22, 1963 Woody Creek I am tired enough to sleep here in this chair, but I have to be in town at 8:30 when Western Union opens so what the hell. Besides, I am afraid to sleep for fear of what I might learn when I wake up. There is no human being within 500 miles to whom I can communicate anything - much less the fear and loathin that is on me after today's murder. God knows I might go mad for lack of talk. I have become like a psychotic Sphinx - I want to kill because I can't talk. I suppose you will say the rotten murder has no meaning for a true writer of fiction, and that the "real artist" in the "little magazines" are above such temporal things. I wish I could agree, but in fact I think what happened today is far more meaningful than the entire contents of the "little magazines" for the past 20 years. And the next 20, if we get that far. We now enter the era of the xxxxrain, President Johnson and the hardening of the arteries. Neither your children nor mine will ever be able to grasp what Gatsby was after. No more of that. You misunderstand it of course, peeling back the first and most obvious layer. Take your "realism" to the garbage dump. Or the "little magazines." They are like a man who goes into a phone booth to pull his pod. Nada, nada. The killing has put me in a state of shock. The rage is trebled. I was not prepared at this time for the death of hope, but here it is. Ignore it at your peril. I have written Semonin, that cheap book-store Marxist, that he had better tell his boys to buy bullets. And forget the dialectic. This is the end of reason, the dirtiest hour in our time. I mean to come down from the hills and enter the fray. Tomorrow a cabled job request to "The Reporter." Failing that, the "Observer." Beyond that, God knows, but it will have to be something. From now until the 1964 elections every man with balls should be on the firing line. The vote will be the most critical in the history of man. No matter what, today is the end of an era. No more fair play. From now on it is dirty pool and judo in the clinches. The savage nuts have shattered the great myth of American decency. They can count me in - I feel ready for a dirty game. Fiction is dead. Mailer is an antique curiosity. The stakes are now too high and the time too short. What, O what, does Eudora Welty have to say? xxxx that crowd. The only hope now is to swing hard with the right hand, while hanging on to sanity with the left. Politics will become a cockfight and reason will go by the boards. There will have to be somebody to carry the flag. My concept of the new novel would have fit this situation, but now I see no hope for getting it done, if indeed, any publishing houses survive the Nazis scramble that is sure to come. How could we have known, or even guessed? I think we have come to that point. Send word if you still exist - HST (From "The Proud Highway: Saga Of A Desperate Southern Gentlemen") http://thedirtysouth.blogspot.com/2005/02/origin-of-fear-and-loathing.html

hunter thompson summed up lbj's legacy very nicely: "Johnson did a lot of rotten things in those five bloody years, but when the history books are written he will emerge in his proper role as the man who caused an entire generation of Americans to lose all respect for the Presidency, the White House, the Army, and in fact the whole structure of “government.” the beat goes on as they say

Baylor University deserves a lot of credit for housing so many collections and other materials pertaining to the assassination of President Kennedy. http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/jfk/index.php?id=64837 they do, and someone needs to give armstrong a medal

do you know if the written material he removed from his book manuscirpt will be made available as well? I suppose you mean the original H&L draft, which ran twice as long, and underwent many editings to get it down to a thousand pages? I doubt it. What is being scanned by Baylor is all of John's original documents. However, those documents will include MUCH research not in the final manuscript, such as the Ziger sisters and Donald O. Norton. But I doubt that John's writings about those documents will be included. Jack that's too bad would love to read it all.

do you know if the written material he removed from his book manuscirpt will be made available as well?

does anyone know or remember the name of a movie that dealt with jfk's assassination that roughly had this plot: older gentleman confides to his younger neighbor that he was one of the assassination team members and agrees to come clean at press conference. it doesnt' come off the younger guy goes to prison where he is murdered. please help.

a picture really is worth a thousand words. that's some prevaricating he does there. it only further convinces me of his major involvement

so its circumstantial and self-referential. p.s. macadams is radioactive

Johnson told the JCS at a 1963 Christmas party, "just get me elected, and you can have your war." What is the source of this, i've seen it used in several books and a movie and haven't been able to determine it origin; i.e., where was it first reported, who recorded it or reported it.

Johnson told the JCS at a 1963 Christmas party, "just get me elected, and you can have your war." Have seen this used in several books and a movie but never have been able to determine its ultimate source. who wrote it down, reported, it or recorded it?

A couple of things: “. . .blind anger isn’t rational” is my point exactly. These were some seriously angry people. Would a corpse and $’s have been enough to overcome a doublecross. As for the notion that “creating an army to go back to take out Castro should have been easy, especially with the returned Bay of Pigs force in the US Army,” I would point to David Shoup’s pre-Bay of Pigs advice (that obviously wasn’t taken): “Shoup advised against both the Bay of Pigs invasion and the commitment of U.S. ground forces in the Vietnam War. When the invasion of Cuba was first discussed, Shoup did a demonstration with maps. Placing a transparent map of Cuba over the United States, he surprised viewers that assumed it was a small island, not 800 miles long. He then put another transparent map overlay over Cuba, with a small red dot. Shoup explained that dot was the size of Tarawa, and ‘it took us three days and eighteen thousand Marines to take it.’ " In those three days, the Marines took 25% casualties and Shoup won the Medal of Honor. Yes, the U.S. could have marshaled a significant enough American force to take the island of Cuba. It wouldn’t have been easy and would in all likelihood have led us down paths we didn’t want to go.

so why didn't they react violently to being double crossed if they were led to believe that the part of the plot that johnson turned off (invasion) was really going to happen and then the rug was pulled out. they just dont' seem like the type to go quietly

My thinking is that the "anti-Castro Cubans" involved in the JFK assassination were members of the Santo Trafficante/Meyer Lansky narcotics smuggling organization. Once the "Castro Conspiracy" angle fell by the wayside, due to the capture of Oswald, this organization abandoned its dreams of restoring Havana as the major hub for international narcotics distribution. In 1964 Meyer Lansky set up the base of the operation in the Bahamas. Cuba wasn't going to be re-taken by the Americans, who were then more concerned with the other end of the heroin pipeline in SE Asia, so anti-Castro activities died out. This is not an argument for "The Mob Killed Kennedy," as it seems to me that there were (are) lots of elite fingers in the international narcotics pie. In 1963, elite-level narcotics operations would include the "Texas Mafia" run by the Murchisons and Hunts, the blue-blood Harriman/Walker/Bush interests, such as Zapata Off-Shore and WUBRINY, and elements of the US military and intelligence establishments. That's my take on the subject, at any rate. so patriotism had its price, makes sense. but what of those legitimately interested in returning cuba to democracy. were they cowed?

What happened to the anti-Castro Cubans following JFK's assassination? Things seemed to get pretty quiet fairly quickly concerning Cuba. I know the larger playground of Vietnam was being opened up even wider for the military and CIA, but I have to think that the anti-Castro Cubans would have expected some sort of quid pro quo for whatever their role was. And it seems that just never happened. I also can't believe that if they had been used and figured out they had been double-crossed they would not have been real happy about it. So what gives. Did the money dry up? Did their masters get preoccupied in SE Asia. Was a dead JFK enough to make them forget returning to their homeland? Why the silence and lack of action? i invite your thoughts. Sorry if this has been covered before.

i know my eyes are getting worse but i don't think that's the cause of not seeing the faintest resemblance between masen and either harvey or lee. maybe he looks different in person. i don't know what ellsworth saw and i wasn't there. i just don't see it.

i would highly recommend A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments by H. P. Albarelli Jr . no real bearing on the assassination but a window into mk-ultra and the way things were done.

i find it equally interesting that atsugi is where the cia kept part of its lsd supply and engaged in "field" testing

Several hours before his death, Huxley's wife Laura gave him a shot containing LSD, telling him to "Go toward the light."

i would hope that armstrong's timeline can be made available here eventually in some way, shape or form.

The, for lack of a better description, "phony Oswald with blond toupee" is designated MEX, 63-23 in John Armstrong's CD, which supplements the book. The previous image is 63-22...which is below.....This is Claude Capehart unless I am mistaken. I would not make any claims regarding what connection, if any, exists between the two photos; but I do find it noteworthy, that the individual in MEX 63-22 seems to have blond hair on top, while having darker blond? or dark hair at the sides. What does everyone else think? actually to me at least it bears a resemblance to jimmy carter. not hinting at anything beyond that. i would bet my last dollar he wasn't involved. lol.