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

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Kerry's paranoia grew and he once stated, "It's hard to be an anarchist when your head is talking to you! Notwithstanding my willingness to admit that conspiracies exist, I felt that a grasp of political events depended upon an understanding of the power of ideas. Whether you are a Kennedy assassination buff or simply interested in the counterculture, THE PRANKSTER AND THE CONSPIRACY is definitely a must read. If you are looking to get a bead on the Thornley universe and how you may obtain a key enabling you to enter into it, The Prankster and the Conspiracy will certainly do it for you. Kerry’s reading habits, though, were not entirely devoted to Mad, and in fact ran the gamut from sci-fi novels, to books on philosophy, religion, politics, and poetry.

Several Discordians noted the similarity between that and the subtitle of the best-known edition of Principia Discordia.The first edition was allegedly printed using District Attorney Jim Garrison’s Xerox printer in 1963. understand where you're coming from-the passage of time certainly clouds our memories, or distorts them.

While I have several connections to people who live in or originated in Russia, I unfortunately never learned the language. As I moved about the French Quarter, it seemed to me I was being tailed by middle-aged men in suits.

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. Another high school chum was Bill Stephens, who hung out with both Kerry and mutual pal, Bob Newport. The sum total of time Kerry and Lee spent together in MACS-9 added up to roughly three months before Kerry was transferred to Atsugi in June 1959, along with a few hundred other Marines who sailed to Japan aboard the U. One of Helen Thornley’s favorite funny stories about Kerry occurred one day when he came out of the kitchen eating a frozen pot pie stuck on a fork.

Looking like a betrayed Caesar—as Kerry later told the Warren Commission—Oswald shouted Not you too, Thornley, and stomped away, pouting. No telling what kind of Trojan war her question would have caused if she had chosen to roll it into the mix at the time. Over the last few months, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about Robert Anton Wilson, the late author whom I’d be comfortable describing as one of my intellectual heroes.The following year Thornley moved to New Orleans where it was claimed he associated with Guy Banister, David Ferrie and Clay Shaw. In January 1968, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, certain there had been a New Orleans-based conspiracy to assassinate John F. The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other cultures, see "reality" differently. In 1978, a copy of a work from Kerry Thornley titled "THE PRINCIPIA Discordia or HOW THE WEST WAS LOST" was placed in the HSCA JFK collections as document 010857.

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. 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. Oswald also referred to officers as party members—a la 1984—due to the special privileges they received.Both men had shared a common interest in society, culture, literature and politics, and whenever duty placed them together, had discussed such topics as George Orwell's famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the philosophy of Marxism, particularly Oswald's interest in the latter. The full title of the fourth and most well-known edition is Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate Of Malaclypse The Younger, Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.