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Brian Doherty goes behind the grassy knoll to find Oswald's unsung accomplice.

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Douglas Fletcher | September 10, 2004, 2:49am | #

Just goes to show you never can be sure -- that smelly nut walking down the street talking to himself just might be an authentic American cultural icon.

Syd | September 10, 2004, 4:17am | #

The juxtaposition of this story next to the "Skull and Bones" story is really, really suspicious.

Fnord.

Unclaimed Mysteries | September 10, 2004, 7:38am | #

"ONE of the Lee Harvey Oswalds acted alone." - Final conclusion of the conspiracy panel at the 4th world Sub-Con 1992, dobbstown malaysia

Cletus Nelson | September 10, 2004, 11:53am | #

Excellent piece---I just wish Doherty would have mentioned Thornley's fascinating essay "Is Paranoia a Form of Awareness?" which appeared in Adam Parfrey and Jim Keith's excellent conspiracy anthology Secret and Supressed (Feral House, 1993)

In a gripping first-person account, the article chronicles his journey into the far-fringes of conspiracy culture.

Apparently the Idle Warriors was initially going to be a "poor man's Ugly American" that would reflect his newfound embrace of Marxism.

However, "as a result of reading Ayn Rand's polemical novel Atlas Shrugged" on a ship home to the states, his politics started heading in a different direction.

Q.W.E.R.T.Y. | September 11, 2004, 1:20am | #

Nonsense; using a vintage '73 Selectric our highly trained typists have reproduced the "impossible memo" dozens of times

David | September 13, 2004, 9:31am | #

Here's a link to a short bio of Thornley (with picture):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Thornley

He's out there, man!

Ira Weatheral | September 13, 2004, 10:38pm | #

Please post the crazy picture of the guy in the magazine!