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

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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.

It took Kerry almost 10 years until he started compiling notes on his Brother-in-law/Kennedy assassination-associated memories. Through the fictional character Johnny Shellburn, "The Idle Warriors" gives rare insight into the mind of the man who allegedly committed the most infamous crime of the century. Camp Street and Related Events, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 13, p. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Last years' THE SHADOW OVER SANTA SUSANA: BLACK MAGIC, MIND CONTROL AND THE "MANSON FAMILY" MYTHOS gave us one of the best books on Charles Manson in well over two decades. By November 1963, according to his own account, Thornley was living in a New Orleans apartment he rented from John Spencer. When Weisberg informed Garrison about this he declined to pursue it because it didn't have anything to do with his chief suspect Clay Shaw. The heavenly body was nicknamed Xena after the character appearing in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.

Because of these coincidences, he was asked to testify before the Warren Commission, and later got looped into Jim Garrison's late-60's crusade to bring the conspirators to justice (the story depicted in Oliver Stone's 'JFK'). Kerry remembered Oswald as a sad sack type with eternally scuffed boots and cap pushed down over his eyes, which he speculated was Oswald’s way of shutting out the Marine world around him, a world that deeply dissatisfied him. That an appendix of the Warren Report had to be devoted to speculation and rumors is in my mind argument enough that a good deal of fabrication and exaggeration was involved somewhere along the line.Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy. Recently I've come across more information on "brother-in-law" aka Gary Kirstein and his partner in crime, Slim Brooks. At any point we are usually no more than six weeks away from closing our doors forever, yet fewer than 1% of our readers and listeners give.

Kerry’s reading habits, though, were not entirely devoted to Mad, and in fact ran the gamut from sci-fi novels, to books on philosophy, religion, politics, and poetry. Among the subjects he closely scrutinized throughout his life were atheism, anarchism, Objectivism, autarchism (he attended Robert LeFevre's Freedom School), neo-paganism, Kerista, [4] Buddhism, and the memetic inheritor of Discordianism, the Church of the SubGenius. As I moved about the French Quarter, it seemed to me I was being tailed by middle-aged men in suits.While Kerry stated that he didn't see Oswald after the Marines, they both lived in New Orleans at the same time, even living near each other. As the title suggests, The "Prankster and the Conspiracy" is primarily about the nexus between Thornley and the Kennedy assassination, and does not purport to be a full biography of Thornley the man. If there ever was a perennial scapegoat of the 60's counterculture it would have to be Kerry Thornley, one of the founding members of the patently anarchist Discordian Society.

Complex, interesting, mildly skeptical and interested in the truth but willing to admit it may never be known, and most importantly, evenhanded, open, scrutinizing yet ultimately kind to its subject. The Marines fight drink and sex their way around the world as the Oswald character becomes disillusioned with the military. The second edition was published under the title Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost in a limited edition of five copies in 1965. During the late 1950s, Thornley became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald when the two served together in the Marines, and was actually writing a novel based on Oswald three years before John F.

Both were active members of the drama club, in which Kerry landed leading roles in such productions as The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners and Jenny Kissed Me. Dick Thornley remembers going to see Kerry in Jenny Kissed Me, and one scene in particular with Kerry sitting in a living room with two girls.