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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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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. There were times in my life that I was lost, but without Kerry things would have been much, much worse for me. Wilson describes Cosmic Trigger itself as an account of “a process of deliberately induced brain change,” and much of the book is devoted to a sympathetic discussion of Leary’s “SMI²LE” program: “SM (Space Migration) + I² (Intelligence Increase) + LE (Life Extension). When night began to fall, Kerry would joke about the weirs, telling his brothers that they’d have to get back before dark, because that’s when the weir-workers came out!

He went to Thornley's apartment, number "C", and found that paper had been left over the entire floor, torn up into small pieces like confetti. However, the Kennedy Assassination--though obviously an important event in the storyline--is only one sub plot of many that appear. And I remember his voice cracked as he put his hands in his pockets, pulled his hat down over his eyes and walked away.Can his mental condition be blamed on an oppressive father (a convenient scapegoat in this generation)?

By November 1963, according to his own account, Thornley was living in a New Orleans apartment he rented from John Spencer.This led Thornley to believe that the US government had somehow been involved, directly or indirectly, in creating and/or supporting these events, personages and phenomena. 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 fact that it has Grace Zabriskie of all the persons was involved in this story is enough to make my head hurt. While attending CalHi, Kerry won a number of public-speaking competitions, and became an accomplished public speaker, a skill which he continued to hone after high school. He depicts a man who was a philosophical and comic genius, but also a raving lunatic (and -perhaps more importantly- an unhappy one). The Marines fight drink and sex their way around the world as the Oswald character becomes disillusioned with the military.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. It’s impossible to imagine Wilson ever lashing out with the toxic insecurity that we’ve seen in Elon Musk, who looks smaller and more Trumpian by the day. Kerry pledged for Delta Sigma Phi, and—as is expected of all pledges—went through the hazing ritual known as hell week.

The first edition was allegedly printed using District Attorney Jim Garrison’s Xerox printer in 1963. The phrase Principia Discordia, reminiscent of Isaac Newton's 1687 Principia Mathematica, is presumably intended to mean Discordant Principles, or Principles of Discordance. Adam Gorightly has delivered a book that is both funny (some of Kerry's antics were inspired hilarity) and sad (his decline in his later years) and gives you lots of twists and turns in between. EC: The story of Kerry Thornley would make a very interesting book - has there been any interest in a film version?

In 2015 Gorightly stated that he now believed that the copy in the JFK collection was an earlier draft of the Principia Discordia predating the first edition. 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.

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