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

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Thornley stayed at Shirlington House for six months, until he testified before the Warren Commission. They say that there is a fine line between genius and insanity and Kerry Thornley is a classic example. Apparently, Bill’s speech was rather loud, so Greg Hill approached him afterwards, saying: Bill, your speech was outstanding! 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. In the days that followed I quarreled with virtually every one of my friends to a greater or lesser extent.

Needless to say, I was jubilant at the news of Kennedy's death -- something I made no attempt to conceal from anyone, much to the annoyance of most of the Bourbon House regulars. It features typewritten and handwritten text intermixed with clip art, stamps, and seals appropriated from other sources. While the Principia is full of literal contradictions and unusual humor, it contains several passages which propose that there is serious intent behind the work, for example a message scrawled on page 00075: "If you think the PRINCIPIA is just a ha-ha, then go read it again. The first edition was allegedly printed using District Attorney Jim Garrison’s Xerox printer in 1963. Thornley] moved to Atlanta in 1969 and became a fixture in Little Five Points, a merry prankster known for his chaos-inspired philosophy and psychedelic conspiracy theories.There was a time when I seriously considered writing a book about his life, and I’m not sure that I won’t try it eventually. Versions of the fourth and best-known edition of Principia Discordia, which was made “kopyleft” (public domain), were published by several companies including Loompanics in 1979, and Steve Jackson Games in 1994. No surprises in this based-on-true-story telling of the Marine platoon that Lee Harvey Oswald served in. And the difference isn’t just that the latter is a billionaire preparing his own survival plan, although that’s certainly part of it.

Stephens remembers Kerry as an intense character who put a shade to everything that was really extreme…. Looking it up, I discovered that Paladin Press “picked up the reins”, but was dismayed to learn that it too is defunct. Wilson’s stated goal, which shouldn’t diminish his considerable merits as a pure entertainer, was “to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything. Adam Gorightly, author of The Prankster and the Conspiracy about Kerry Thornley and the early Discordians, said the copy in the JFK collection was not a copy of the first edition but a later and altered version containing some of the original material.Often, Kerry took his younger brothers—Dick and Tom—on adventures up to Friendly Hills, where he encouraged the boys to give their own names to the some of the places they visited. He managed to keep ahead of the archetypal game by purging himself, from time to time, through various prankster like stunts, self published underground 'zines and the writing of fiction.

Some pushed to have the planet named “Bob” after the central figure of the Church of the SubGenius 1. Aynny's I've-got-the-Hots-for-Capitalism philosophy served to malignantly magnetize the ever mutating vortex of KT's psyche and attracted some kind of negative free market investment forces into its realm. Apparently the perpetrators—Kerry, Greg, and other unnamed cohorts—made a recording of what, at first, appeared to be a regular radio program, with music playing innocently from a radio positioned on the apron of the stage. 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. He doesn’t shy away from the less-comfortable aspects of Thornley’s personality and deals frankly with his later descent into paranoia.

But when Thornley said he hadn’t had contact with Oswald since 1959, Garrison charged him with perjury.

Inserted into the seemingly mundane radio program, the pranksters had planted a series of interruptions, made by a newscaster, to the effect that Soviet planes were invading the U. Thornley’s connection with Oswald, his time living in New Orleans, and his anti-Kennedy feelings caught the attention of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. The following year Thornley moved to New Orleans where it was claimed he associated with Guy Banister, David Ferrie and Clay Shaw. On Saturday, December 11, 1965, Kerry married Cara Leach at Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes, California. After getting appropriately drunk, the two visited a Tijuana brothel, where Kerry lost his virginity.Oswald portrayed himself as some sort of martyr who was being made example of by the entire Marine Corps hierarchy, and in particular such authority figures as Sergeant Spar.

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