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    #14261212 - 04/08/11 11:16 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

  • 1932:  Paul Krassner is born




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Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) is an author, journalist, stand-up comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s.

Early life

Krassner was a child violin prodigy (and was the youngest person ever to play Carnegie Hall, in 1939 at age six). His parents were Jewish,  but Krassner is firmly secular, considering Judaism "organised superstition".  In college he majored in journalism, and began performing as a standup comedian under the name Paul Maul. He recalled:

    While in college, I started working for an anti-censorship paper, The Independent. After I left college I started working there full time. So, I never had a normal job where I had to be interviewed and wear a suit and tie. I became their managing editor and also did freelance stuff for Mad magazine. But Mad was aimed at a teenage audience, and there was no satirical magazine for adults. So it was a kind of organic evolution toward The Realist, which was essentially a combination of satire and alternative journalism.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was active in politically edged humor and satire. Krassner was a founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) in 1967 and a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, famous for prankster activism. He was a close protégé of the controversial comedian Lenny Bruce, and the editor of Bruce's autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.  With the encouragement of Bruce, Krassner started to perform standup comedy in 1961 at the Village Gate in New York.

In 1963, he created what Kurt Vonnegut described as "a miracle of compressed intelligence nearly as admirable for potent simplicity, in my opinion, as Einstein's e=mc2." Vonnegut explained: "With the Vietnam War going on, and with its critics discounted and scorned by the government and the mass media, Krassner put on sale a red, white and blue poster that said FUCK COMMUNISM. At the beginning of the 1960s, FUCK was believed to be so full of bad magic as to be unprintable. [...] By having FUCK and COMMUNISM fight it out in a single sentence, Krassner wasn't merely being funny as heck. He was demonstrating how preposterous it was for so many people to be responding to both words with such cockamamie Pavlovian fear and alarm."

In 1971, five years after Lenny Bruce's death, Groucho Marx said, "I predict that in time Paul Krassner will wind up as the only live Lenny Bruce."

The Realist

The Realist was published on a fairly regular schedule during the 1960s, then on an irregular schedule after the early 1970s. In 1966, Krassner published The Realist's controversial "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" poster, illustrated by Wally Wood, and he recently made this famed black-and-white poster available in a digital color version. The Realist also distributed a red, white and blue Cold War bumper sticker that read "Fuck Communism."

Krassner's most notorious satire was the article "The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book", which followed the censorship of William Manchester's book on the Kennedy assassination, The Death of a President. At the climax of the grotesque-genre short-story, Lyndon B. Johnson is described as having sexually penetrated the bullet-hole wound in the throat of JFK's corpse.  According to Elliot Feldman, "Some members of the mainstream press and other Washington political wonks, including Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, actually believed this incident to be true."  In a 1995 interview for the magazine Adbusters, Krassner commented: "People across the country believed - if only for a moment - that an act of presidential necrophilia had taken place. It worked because Jackie Kennedy had created so much curiosity by censoring the book she authorized - William Manchester's 'The Death Of A President' - because what I wrote was a metaphorical truth about LBJ's personality presented in a literary context, and because the imagery was so shocking, it broke through the notion that the war in Vietnam was being conducted by sane men."

In 1966, he reprinted in The Realist an excerpt from the academic journal the Journal of the American Medical Association, but presenting it as original material. The article dealt with drinking glasses, tennis balls and other foreign bodies found in patients’ rectums.  Some accused him of having a perverted mind, and a subscriber wrote "I found the article thoroughly repellent. I trust you know what you can do with your magazine."

Krassner revived The Realist as a much smaller newsletter during the mid-1980s when material from the magazine was collected in The Best of the Realist: The 60's Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine (Running Press, 1985). The final issue of The Realist was #146 (Spring, 2001).

Books

Krassner remains a prolific writer. In 1971 he published a collection of his favourite works for The Realist, as How A Satirical Editor Became A Yippie Conspirator In Ten Easy Years.  In 1981 he published the satirical story Tales of Tongue Fu, in which the hilarious misadventures of the Japanese-American man Tongue Fu are mixed with a wicked social commentary. In 1994 he published his autobiography Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture. In July 2009, City Lights Publishers will release Who's to Say What's Obscene?, a collection of satirical essays that explore contemporary comedy and obscenity in politics and culture.

He published three collections of drug stories. The first collection, Pot Stories for the Soul (1999), is from other authors and is about marijuana. Psychedelic Trips for the Mind (2001), is written by Krassner himself and collects stories on LSD. The third, Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs (2004), is by Krassner too, and deals with magic mushrooms, ecstasy, peyote, mescaline, THC, opium, cocaine, ayahuasca, belladonna, ketamine, PCP, STP, "toad slime," and more.

Other activities

In 1968, Krassner signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

In 1971, Krassner worked as a weekend radio personality and disk jockey at San Francisco's ABC-FM radio affiliate, KSFX, (subsequently KGO-FM). Under the pseudonym "Rumpelforeskin", he satirized culture and politics while espousing his atheism. He was also a contributor to early issues of Mad magazine. He often appears as a stand-up comedian, and he was among those featured in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats. Krassner also remains a prolific lecturer. He has been a frequent speaker at both the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium.  In 1998 he was featured at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Wavy Gravy during their exhibit entitled I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era 1965-1969.  Currently, he is a columnist for The Nation, AVN Online and High Times Magazine. He also is a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

Krassner has also written about the Patty Hearst trial and possible connections between the Symbionese Liberation Army and the FBI.

Awards

Krassner is the only person to win awards from both Playboy magazine (for satire) and the Feminist Party Media Workshop (for journalism). He was the first living man to be inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame, which took place at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. He received an ACLU Uppie (Upton Sinclair) Award for dedication to freedom of expression, and, according to the FBI files, he was described by the FBI as "a raving, unconfined nut."  George Carlin commented: "The FBI was right, this man is dangerous – and funny; and necessary."  In 2005 he received a Grammy nomination for Best Album Notes for his essay on the 6-CD package Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware.

Bibliography

Books

    * 1981 - Tales of Tongue Fu (And/Or Press)
    * 1994 - Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture (Touchstone) ISBN 0-671-89843-4
    * 2000 - Sex, Drugs, and the Twinkie Murders (Loompanics Unlimited) ISBN 1-55950-206-1
    * 2005 - One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, Foreword by Harry Shearer, Introduction by Lewis Black (Seven Stories Press) ISBN 1-58322-696-6

Collections of drug stories

    * 1999 - High Times Presents Paul Krassner's Pot Stories for the Soul. Various authors. Compiled by Krassner with a foreword by Ellison, Harlan (High Times) ISBN 1-893010-02-3
    * 2001 - Paul Krassner's Psychedelic Trips for the Mind (High Times Press) ISBN 1-893010-07-4
    * 2004 - Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy (Ten Speed Press) ISBN 1-58008-581-4

Articles collections books

    * 1971 - How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years (Putnam)
    * 1985 - The Best of the Realist: The 60's Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine (Running Press) ISBN 0-89471-289-6
    * 1996 - The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race: The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut (Seven Stories Press) ISBN 1-888363-44-4
    * 2002 - Murder at the Conspiracy Convention: And Other American Absurdities introduced by George Carlin (Barricade Books, Inc.) ISBN 1-56980-231-9
    * 2009 - Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today (City Lights Publishers) ISBN 978-0-87286-501-3

Articles

    * Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu January 11, 2008 (preface of the book Tales of Tongue Fu)
    * Life Among the Neo-Pagans in The Nation, Aug. 29, 2005.
    * The Blame Game in The Huffington Post, August 26, 2005.
    * My Acid Trip with Groucho in High Times Magazine, February 1981
    * Forty Years Later: Remembering the Summer of Love High Times June 21st, 2007
    * The Nature of Protest: Then and Now High Times July 2nd, 2004
    * Lenny & the Law, Together Again High Times June 10th, 2004
    * Steve Earl: Sticking to His Principles High Times May 19, 2004
    * The Trial of Vivian McPeak High Times February 13th, 2004
    * The Witch Hunt Ain’t Over Yet High Times December 24th, 2003

Interviews


    * 1999 - Paul Krassner's Impolite Interviews (Seven Stories Press) ISBN 1-888363-92-4
    * 2006 - RU Sirius Show #53 (7/17/2006), guest Paul Krassner (podcast, .mp3)
    * 2006 - Pranks! 2 Interview with Paul Krassner
    * 2006 - The Legacy of Timothy Leary High Times October 20th, 2006
    * 2007 - Beatdom's Interview with Paul Krassner
    * 2009 - In the Jester's Court: Paul Krassner On The Virtues Of Irreverence, Indecency, And Illegal Drugs by David Kupfer (Sun Magazine Jan. 2009)
    * 2009 - In Praise of Indecency: Paul Krassner Interviewed by Carol Queen (CarnalNation, July 27 2009)
    * 2010 - Interview With Paul Krassner from SexIs Magazine
    * 2011 - Interviewed by Marc Maron

Discography

Stand-up comedy recordings:

    * 1996 - We Have Ways of Making You Laugh (Mercury Records)
    * 1997 - Brain Damage Control (Mercury Records)
    * 1999 - Sex, Drugs and the Antichrist: Paul Krassner at MIT (Sheridan Square Entertainment)
    * 2000 - Campaign In the Ass (Artemis Records)
    * 2002 - Irony Lives (Artemis Records)
    * 2004 - The Zen Bastard Rides Again (Artemis Records)

Filmography

    * 1972 - Dynamite Chicken
    * 1983 - Cocaine Blues
    * 1987 - The Wilton North Report (TV series)
    * 1990 - Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document
    * 1998 - Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
    * 1999 - The Source
    * 2003 - Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
    * 2005 - The Aristocrats
    * 2006 - Gonzo Utopia
    * 2006 - The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    * 2006 - Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business
    * 2008 - Sex: The Revolution (TV mini-series)
    * 2008 - Looking for Lenny
    * 2009 - Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (PBS)


(https://en.wikipedia.org)









  • 1958:  Neal Cassady is arrested for marijuana distribution




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Fortune had been less kind to Neal Cassady than it had to either Kerouac or Ginsberg. In April 1958, a year after On the Road had made him famous as the quintessential angelheaded hipster, Cassady had been arrested in San Francisco and charged with operating a marijuana-smuggling ring. The evidence (two joints that Neal had give to a plain-clothes cop in exchange for a ride to work) was ludicrous, but it was enough to earn him two concurrent sentences of five years to life in San Quentin. One might expect, given his compulsive energy, that prison would've been unbearable for Cassady, but in an odd way he thrived on what he referred to as his period of enforced meditation. "Worldly failure was always Cassady's most creative element," William Plummer wrote in The Holy Gavin Arthur, grandson of the twenty-first president and comparative religion professor at San Quentin, would later say that Neal was at his most sublime in prison. It was the one place where he could use his magnificent mind, said Arthur, adding that it was the only place where Neal was not a slave to the "desire body." 


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  • 1961:  'Beatnik riot' takes place




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On Sunday, April 9, 1961 folk music pioneer Izzy Young, owner of the Folklore Center (who had been trying to get permits for the folksingers) and about 500 musicians and supporters gathered in the park and sang songs without a permit, then held a procession from the park through the arch at Fifth Avenue, and marched to the Judson Memorial Church on the other side of the park. At about the time the musicians and friends reached the church, the New York Police Department Riot Squad was sent into the park, attacked civilians with billy clubs, and arrested ten people. The incident made the front pages of newspapers as far away as Washington D. C. The New York Mirror initially reported it as a "Beatnik Riot" but retracted the headline in the next edition. These tensions did not die down for some time.


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  • 1976:  Phil Ochs commits suicide




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Philip David Ochs (play /ˈoʊks/; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and released eight albums in his lifetime.

Ochs performed at many political events, including anti-Vietnam War and civil rights rallies, student events, and organized labor events over the course of his career, in addition to many concert appearances at such venues as New York City's Town Hall and Carnegie Hall. Politically, Ochs described himself as a "left social democrat" who became an "early revolutionary" after the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to a police riot, which had a profound effect on his state of mind.

After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs's mental stability declined in the 1970s. He eventually succumbed to a number of problems including bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and took his own life in 1976.

Some of Ochs's major influences were Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Bob Gibson, Faron Young, Merle Haggard, John Wayne, and John F. Kennedy. His best-known songs include "I Ain't Marching Anymore", "Changes", "Crucifixion", "Draft Dodger Rag", "Love Me I'm a Liberal", "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", "Power and the Glory", "There but for Fortune", and "The War Is Over".

Decline and death

Ochs's drinking became more and more of a problem, and his behavior became increasingly erratic. He frightened his friends both with his drunken rants about the FBI and CIA, and about his claiming to want to have Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker or Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders manage his career.

In mid-1975, Ochs took on the identity of John Butler Train. He told people that Train had murdered Ochs, and that he, John Butler Train, had replaced him. Train was convinced that someone was trying to kill him, so he carried a weapon at all times: a hammer, a knife, or a lead pipe.

Ochs's friends tried to help him. His brother Michael attempted to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital. Friends pleaded with him to get help voluntarily. They feared for his safety, because he was getting into fights with bar patrons. Unable to pay his rent, he began living on the streets.

After several months, the Train persona faded and Ochs returned, but his talk of suicide disturbed his friends and family. They hoped it was a passing phase, but Ochs was determined.  One of his biographers explains Ochs's motivation:

    By Phil's thinking, he had died a long time ago: he had died politically in Chicago in 1968 in the violence of the Democratic National Convention; he had died professionally in Africa a few years later, when he had been strangled and felt that he could no longer sing; he had died spiritually when Chile had been overthrown and his friend Victor Jara had been brutally murdered; and, finally, he had died psychologically at the hands of John Train.

In January 1976, Ochs moved to Far Rockaway, New York, to live with his sister Sonny. He was lethargic; his only activities were watching television and playing cards with his nephews. Ochs saw a psychiatrist, who diagnosed his bipolar disorder. He was prescribed medication, and he told his sister he was taking it.  On April 9, 1976, Ochs hanged himself.

Years after his death, it was revealed that the FBI had a file of nearly 500 pages on Ochs.  Much of the information in those files relates to his association with counterculture figures, protest organizers, musicians, and other people described by the FBI as "subversive".  The FBI was often sloppy in collecting information on Ochs: his name was frequently misspelled "Oakes" in their files, and they continued to consider him "potentially dangerous" after his death.

Congresswoman Bella Abzug (Democrat from New York), an outspoken anti-war activist herself who had appeared at the 1975 "War is Over" rally, entered this statement into the Congressional Record on April 29, 1976:

    Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago, a young folksinger whose music personified the protest mood of the 1960s took his own life. Phil Ochs—whose original compositions were compelling moral statements against war in Southeast Asia—apparently felt that he had run out of words.

    While his tragic action was undoubtedly motivated by terrible personal despair, his death is a political as well as an artistic tragedy. I believe it is indicative of the despair many of the activists of the 1960s are experiencing as they perceive a government which continues the distortion of national priorities that is exemplified in the military budget we have before us.

    Phil Ochs' poetic pronouncements were part of a larger effort to galvanize his generation into taking action to prevent war, racism, and poverty. He left us a legacy of important songs that continue to be relevant in 1976—even though "the war is over".

    Just one year ago—during this week of the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War—Phil recruited entertainers to appear at the "War is Over" celebration in Central Park, at which I spoke.

    It seems particularly appropriate that this week we should commemorate the contributions of this extraordinary young man.

Robert Christgau, who had been so critical of Pleasures of the Harbor and Ochs's guitar skills eight years earlier, wrote warmly of Ochs in his obituary in the Village Voice—an irony that Ochs might have enjoyed. "I came around to liking Phil Ochs' music, guitar included," Christgau wrote. "My affection [for Ochs] no doubt prejudiced me, so it is worth [noting] that many observers who care more for folk music than I do remember both his compositions and his vibrato tenor as close to the peak of the genre."


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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/09) [Re: Learyfan]
    #14262493 - 04/09/11 10:28 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Happy 79th Birthday Paul Krassner! 

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    #14262498 - 04/09/11 10:30 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

R.I.P. Phil Ochs





















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    #18080529 - 04/09/13 05:41 AM (10 years, 10 months ago)

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    #19815689 - 04/08/14 10:13 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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    #19815708 - 04/08/14 10:16 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

so far (as far as I've skimmed) it sounds like a good life. will have to read up more later.


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    #21522820 - 04/09/15 05:39 AM (8 years, 10 months ago)

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    #23100569 - 04/09/16 01:57 PM (7 years, 10 months ago)

40th anniversary of the death of Phil Ochs today. 
















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    #23100650 - 04/09/16 02:25 PM (7 years, 10 months ago)

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Happy 84th Paul Krassner!  :cheers:


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No, it's Paul Krassner's 85th birthday!  :wink:












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60th anniversary of Neal Cassady's marijuana bust today.











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    #26588392 - 04/09/20 09:16 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Here's some more info on Neal Cassady's 1958 marijuana arrest.



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One thing that came up during our conversation was the recently unearthed mug shot from Neal’s April 9, 1958 arrest on marijuana charges.

Al was present in the San Francisco courtroom the day Neal was convicted. He’s also the person who, two years later, picked Neal up when he was released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960.

“Neal didn’t want a lawyer,” Al said. “He didn’t have a lot of money, and was feeling guilty over having lost the family fortune—a few years earlier, he had Natalie Jackson forge Carolyn’s signature so he could withdraw all their money from the bank, to place a ‘sure bet’ at the horse races. He lost, of course. He was also haunted by Natalie’s suicide not long after. It seemed he’d resigned himself to his fate, like a good Catholic boy accepting his situation as penance for his sins. He’d been sitting in the county jail in San Bruno awaiting his court date. The day of the trial, he met with the public defender for just fifteen minutes, there in the courtroom. Nothing good in Cassady’s background seemed to sway the judge’s opinion. I doubt neither the public defender nor the judge knew that he was a family man, that he owned a house in Los Gatos, nor that he was beloved by his bosses at the Southern Pacific Railroad, and that he was the one chosen by the SP to accompany President Eisenhower when he took a five car private train from San Francisco to Pebble Beach to play golf, following the 1956 Republican National Convention, held at the Cow Palace.”

On the front cover of Grace Beats Karma: Letters from Prison 1958-60 is a photograph taken by Carolyn on Easter of 1957, showing Neal with their children, Cathy, Jami, and John, all dressed in their Sunday best, with the family dog, Cayce—the very image of a wholesome 1950s nuclear family. Neal asked Carolyn to submit the photo to the court in an appeal for leniency, but it only seemed to reinforce the judge’s assumption that Neal was of bad character, that he lived a “double life,” and was probably a drug pusher.

According to Hinkle*:

“Neal made the mistake of offering to share a joint with a guy he knew to be an undercover narcotics agent. He was rushing to work at the railroad one day and he offered to split the only remaining portion of a joint he had for a ride to work. Everybody in North Beach knew that these two guys were undercover cops. They would go between various bars in the neighborhood, always nursing a small beer, and asking questions about all the patrons. They stuck out like a couple of sore thumbs and Neal knew who they were. Why he was willing to play their game with them I’ll never know. I guess he figured he could get away with it because he ditched the evidence when he threw the roach out the window just as they arrived at the Southern Pacific Station. He didn’t need to do it. He did it for kicks, I think.

“At first the district attorney couldn’t make the case. The grand jury threw it out for lack of evidence, and after a week in jail, they let Neal go. But they took it to a second grand jury who approved it. The cops who busted him were worried about blowing their cover, and putting pressure on the court. ‘He knows who we are. We won’t be able to work in San Francisco again because he’ll tell everyone our identities. We’ve got to get this guy off the street.’ The second grand jury went forward with the indictment.

“The police searched Neal’s car, they searched his home, they searched his locker at the Southern Pacific. They didn’t find a thing. Neal knew the roach he’d thrown out the window was the last bit of marijuana he had on him. He knew he was clean. But the cops wanted to get him off the street.”

The day after the charges were dropped and Neal was released, the police arrested him again.

“I remember seeing Neal in the courtroom that day, handcuffed to a young merchant marine who was up for rape and murder.

“The trial was over in a blink of an eye. It lasted only a few minutes. I remember the judge saying to him, ‘Mr. Cassady, do you smoke this stuff?’ And of course Neal would not admit to that. ‘No, Your Honor, I do not,’ Neal told him. So the judge said, ‘Then I can only presume you’re a dealer.’ Those words stuck with me,” said Al, “I can remember those words like it was yesterday. Neal got five years to life in San Quentin.

“Neal had a tough time in San Quentin. The only good part is they assigned him a job in the library. He enjoyed that. I visited him a few times while he was incarcerated. They had an approved list, people who were allowed to visit, and people who were allowed to mail him things.

“I drove Carolyn there to visit with him on two occasions. I even drove LuAnne Henderson there once. Allen Ginsberg went to visit him once or twice, and at one point Ginsberg even tried to enlist the lawyer who had won the Howl Trial, Jake Ehrlich, to help get Neal out of prison. Jake was willing to help, as I recall, but this all happened after Neal had already been in for 18 months, and Jake seemed to think Neal would be getting out of San Quentin on parole soon anyway, which is exactly what happened.

“When Neal was finally paroled from San Quentin I drove to pick him up. He was very serious while we were in the car. He told me the last few nights in prison he kept waking up in the middle of the night, twisting and turning like he was physically battling with someone—himself, really. He said, ‘God I’m glad I’m out. What am I going to do with the rest of my life, Al? I’ve been wrastling with the devil, Al. I’ve been wrastling with the devil.’ That’s exactly how he pronounced it. Wrastling. I tried to get Neal to open up about what he meant, but he was never able to elaborate any further.

“The thing about it,” Al said, “The Southern Pacific was an easy railroad to come back to. We’d actually had a kleptomaniac who’d been arrested and fired twice, and he got his job back a third time. I’d already set it up so Neal could have his old job back, if only he’d come in and asked for it. All he had to do was tell them ‘It was only a little weed and I won’t do it again.’ But he was too embarrassed to show his face at the Southern Pacific. He never bothered to come in.”

Telephone conversation between Jerry Cimino and Al Hinkle, December 31, 2017. The following day, January 1, 2018, recreational marijuana became legal in California.

* We’re aware that the details of Al Hinkle’s account differ slightly from the accepted narrative of Neal’s arrest.


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    #27726925 - 04/09/22 08:47 AM (1 year, 10 months ago)

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65th anniversary of Neal Cassady being arrested for marijuana distribution.









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I love these.  These threads are like pub time capsules.


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