The Dreadlock Recollections (Kerry Thornley)
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:07 amFound this (PDF) via OVO
This was kind of a thing of legend in my youth and finally had a chance to read it.
LINK TO DREADLOCK RECOLLECTIONS HERE
From OVO introduction: "Never before published autobiography of Kerry Wendell Thornley. A chilling confession to murderous mind control and knowing satire of what paranoid people sound like. 240 pages."
For those not familiar with Thornley,
Wiki Entry HERE
excerpt:
"Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 - November 28, 1998) is perhaps best-known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism. In this context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, a name he derived from Omar Khayyám. He and Hill authored the religion's seminal text 'Principia Discordia, or, how I found Goddess, and what I did to her when I found her'."
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"Thornley had served for a short time in the same radar operator unit as Lee Harvey Oswald in the spring of 1959 at MCAS El Toro in Santa Ana, California. Both men had shared a common interest in society, culture, literature and politics, and whenever duty placed them together, had discussed such topics as George Orwell's famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the philosophy of Marxism, particularly Oswald's interest in the latter."
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"In late 1962, Thornley completed The Idle Warriors, the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Due to the serendipitous nature of Thornley's choice of literary subject matter, he was called to testify before the Warren Commission in Washington DC on May 18, 1964. The Commission subpoenaed a copy of the book and stored it in the National Archives. In 1965, Thornley published another book titled Oswald, generally defending the "Oswald-as-lone-assassin" conclusion of the Warren Commission, which met with dismal sales. In his later years, Thornley became convinced that Oswald had in truth been a CIA asset whose purpose was to ferret out suspected Communist sympathizers serving in the Corps."
Just curious if others have read it. What are your thoughts?
This was kind of a thing of legend in my youth and finally had a chance to read it.
LINK TO DREADLOCK RECOLLECTIONS HERE
From OVO introduction: "Never before published autobiography of Kerry Wendell Thornley. A chilling confession to murderous mind control and knowing satire of what paranoid people sound like. 240 pages."
For those not familiar with Thornley,
Wiki Entry HERE
excerpt:
"Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 - November 28, 1998) is perhaps best-known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism. In this context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, a name he derived from Omar Khayyám. He and Hill authored the religion's seminal text 'Principia Discordia, or, how I found Goddess, and what I did to her when I found her'."
{snip}
"Thornley had served for a short time in the same radar operator unit as Lee Harvey Oswald in the spring of 1959 at MCAS El Toro in Santa Ana, California. Both men had shared a common interest in society, culture, literature and politics, and whenever duty placed them together, had discussed such topics as George Orwell's famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the philosophy of Marxism, particularly Oswald's interest in the latter."
{snip}
"In late 1962, Thornley completed The Idle Warriors, the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Due to the serendipitous nature of Thornley's choice of literary subject matter, he was called to testify before the Warren Commission in Washington DC on May 18, 1964. The Commission subpoenaed a copy of the book and stored it in the National Archives. In 1965, Thornley published another book titled Oswald, generally defending the "Oswald-as-lone-assassin" conclusion of the Warren Commission, which met with dismal sales. In his later years, Thornley became convinced that Oswald had in truth been a CIA asset whose purpose was to ferret out suspected Communist sympathizers serving in the Corps."
Just curious if others have read it. What are your thoughts?
So I had thought "all the evidence had
Many people reveal a desire to play fast and loose with history but Sir, that is an outrage!