"Adam Gorightly offers a unique take on virtually every conspiracy of our time."—Erskine Payton, Erskine Overnight
Kerry Thornley never imagined that after starting a spoof religion in the 1950s that worshipped Eris—the Greek goddess of chaos and discord—that this seeming joke would unleash a torrent of actual chaos into his life in the years to follow.
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. Kennedy's assassination. These connections would later cause New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison to suspect that Thornley was one of the notorious Oswald doubles and a part of a JFK assassination plot. Initially, Thornley denied these allegations, but later came to believe that he'd been used as an unwitting pawn in the conspiracy.
Adam Gorightly is best known for his book on the Manson Family, The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos. Adam has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows such as Coast To Coast AM with Ian Punnett and Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis. Television appearances include the History Channel's documentary The Manson Murders.
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Adam has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows such as Coast To Coast AM with Ian Punnett, Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis and The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett. Television appearances include the History Channel's documentary The Manson Murders.
He is currently involved in the Discordian Archives project (www.historiadiscordia.com)
Inhalt
Kerry Thornley, Oswald and the Garrison's JFK Investigation
Contents
Preface
Chapters
Idle Warriors
Self Styled Marxists
Shadowy Characters
Nightmare on Elm Street
Star Witness
From Witness To Suspect
Cubans, Rightwingers and Reds, Oh My!
A Homosexual Thrill-Kill?
The Problems With Propinquity
Lee Harvey Doppelgänger
Photographic Tomfoolery
Sketchy Witnesses & Unsigned Affidavits
The Purported Love Triangle
An Anti-Climatic Ending
The Ghosts of New Orleans
Who Was "Slim" Brooks?
Not Your Average American Citizen
The Pipe Smoking Incident and Other Disturbing Developments
The Bucknell Revelations
Odd Bedfellows: Kerry and Kelley
Was The Discordian Society A CIA Front?
Barbara Reid and Raymond Broshears: Two Strange Peas In A Pod
Author's Summation
The Kerry Thornley Revival
MIBs In L5P
Afterword
Talkin' 'Bout My Generation by R. N. Taylor
Appendix
In the Garrison State (1970)
What About The 26 Volumes? (1970)
Did The Plumbers Plug JFK, Too? (1973)
Star Witness (1975)
A Poem For Oswald (1975)
To Mother Oswald (1975)
This Fokker Was A Messerschmidtt (1977)
Remarkable Suspects (1992)
Who Is Kerry Thornley? by Gregory Hill (1968)
Acknowledgements
Notes
Name Index