Search Results: oswald by thornley kerry

Chicago, Il: Classics House , 1965 Scarce mass-market paperback, damp stain top edge about 3 1/2 inches wide intrudes less than 1/2 inch into textblock, 70 pages. Several cover creases, spine creases, soil and damp stains on the cover, bare spot almost 2 inches wide from being used as a coaster. Sounds worse than it actually is. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair.

Chicago, IL: New Classics House / Novel Books, Inc., 1965. 126 pp., wraps; Book shows wear to front cover joint w/ a 1 1/4" separation at bottom front; front cover has some wear to corners & a "c" in black marker to top left corner, as well as some bleed through from marker to inside of front cover; inside of front cover has 3 areas blacked w/ marker, the word "cash" in marker, & a bookstore stamp, none of them significantly affecting text; cover is separating a bit from page block at bottom front, though the pages themselves still seem firmly bound together; a few pages have some nicks & even very short tears to fore edges w/ creasing to top corner of 1 leaf; pages are browning; back cover has a nick & small creases to fore edge & a crease to bottom corner; some slight soil to covers overall / "Including the 'Warren' Commission's 106 page deposition of the author; a supportive psychological analysis by Albert Ellis, Ph.D.; a biographical… Read More

Chicago: New Classics House, 1965. First edition. First edition. 126, [2] pp. with 8 pages of b/w photos in middle of book. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with subtle creasing to spine, light wear. An ephemeral "lone nutter" work about the assassination of John F. Kennedy published in its wake that incorporates a novel ostensibly written about the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, while he was still a teenage crypto-Marxist in the Marines: The Idle Warriors. New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison would chase down the author in his investigation into conspiracy and cover-up in the assassination, which was recounted in the Oliver Stone film JFK. To this day, like so many facets of the JFK assassination mythos, opinion is sharply divided about Thornley's motivations and the accuracy of Garrison's probe. Thornley would go on to co-found the joke religion of Discordianism and be active in the libertarian right.

2713 N. Pulaski Rd. Chicago, Illinois: The National Insider, 1965. 1st Edition . UNBOUND. Very Good/No Jacket. Complete original 1965 newspaper edition of the first part of the condensed tabloid publication of Kerry Thornley's book entitled OSWALD.Three years prior to the JFK assassination, Thornley had begun writing a novel about a disillusioned Marine. After meeting Oswald during his military service and later on hearing of his defection to Russia, Thornley shifted the subject matter entirely to Oswald. The Warren Commission investigating the JFK assassination subpoenaed his book manuscript entitled THE IDLE WARRIORS and delayed publication until 1991.The book OSWALD is based on his Warren Commission testimony which supported the lone assassin theory. Thornley himself became a person of interest in the District Attorney Jim Garrison investigation and was charged with perjury related to his denial of contact with Oswald while in New Orleans prior to the assassination. Thornley would later… Read More