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Article: Historia Discordia meet Kerry Thornley, the second Oswald.(Critical Essay)
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- August 1, 2004
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Kerry Thornley lived and died in obscurity. But while few people noticed, he invented one of the 20th century's more influential religions, helped launch '60s-style sex-and-nature neopaganism, and was a major force behind the first modern libertarian 'zine.
He was also, to hear him tell it, part of the conspiracy to murder JFK, and thus escalate the Vietnam War--a conspiracy so secret even Thornley didn't know about it at the time.
Thornley was one of America's most fascinating unknowns. It is fitting, given the underground nature of his claims to fame, that his first biography, The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met ...