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Article: Onetime beatnik heads Moral Majority
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 28, 1988
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Jerry Nims, the new and somewhat improbable head of the
archconservative Moral Majority, is the rebellious son of a Baptist
preacher who spent a good part of his youth in long hair, playing in
a blues band and studying Marx.
The son of a Baptist preacher, Jerry Nims rebelled as a youth
growing up in California. He wore his hair long, grew a beard,
played piano in a blues band and studied at San Francisco State
University, a popular roost for left-wingers flocking to the words of
Marx and Lenin.
In the vernacular of the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was a
beatnik.
A couple of decades, a few philsophical adjustments and several
bends in a strangely crooked road later, the Rev. Nims ...