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“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
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Late 60s pulp



Year One, 1955: lvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs...

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Timothy Leary. Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they Deserve: If the doors of perception were cleansed,

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Timothy Leary. Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they Deserve: Leary

Timothy Leary. Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they Deserve: Leary

Hugh Hefner and Bunny, 1966


Lennon misquoted




The Strip. Las Vegas, 1969. View from a room at the Sahara, looking south at Riviera, Stardust and the Frontier.


Hollywood Freeway, 1962.


Doing the Twist on the streets of London, 1962, photo by Norman Parkinson


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60's TV


                                                      The old Vulcan Mind Probe
Julia 
                                                                      Mister Ed

 Rusty Hamer played the son on the Danny Thomas Sow. His career later stalled and he committed suicide in 1990. Angela Cartwright, appeared in The Sound of Music and was Penny on TV's Lost in Space.  she’s a photographer.


                                                     Jay North is now 62 tears old

Donovan state prison inmate Sirhan Sirhan loses round in federal court



Kennedy assassin to remain in San Diego

By Matt Potter, Jan. 8, 2015

One of San Diego's most notorious inmates will remain behind the walls of the state's Donovan Correctional Facility here following a federal judge's ruling that evidence of a possible conspiracy does not absolve Sirhan Bishara Sirhan of guilt in the June 1968 slaying of Robert F. Kennedy.
The convicted assassin "has failed to meet his burden of establishing actual innocence," wrote judge Beverly Reid O'Connell in her January 5 order denying a bid by Sirhan for a writ of habeas corpus.
“Likewise, Petitioner has failed to demonstrate that he falls within the narrow exception warranting an evidentiary hearing at this stage."
The latest in a long string of legal efforts by Sirhan, now 70, was filed in May 2000. Despite multiple rejections by federal courts, his attorneys have continued to appeal the case, asserting in part that others were behind the killing of the Democratic presidential candidate.
"Though Petitioner advances a number of theories regarding the events of June 5, 1968," O'Connell's ruling says, "Petitioner does not dispute that he fired eight rounds of gunfire in the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel.
"After reviewing the evidence, the Court agrees with the findings of Magistrate Judge Wistrich. Petitioner does not show that it is more likely than not that no juror, acting reasonably, would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt."
Much of Sirhan's latest bid for freedom has been based on testimony of eyewitness Nina Rhodes-Hughes, which was not presented at Sirhan's 1969 trial.
"What has to come out is that there was another shooter to my right," Rhodes-Hughes, a television actress, told CNN in April 2012. "The truth has got to be told. No more cover-ups."
O'Connell's ruling dismisses that argument. "Ms. Rhodes-Hughes disputes the location and number of gunfire shots; yet, importantly, she does not assert that Petitioner is innocent.
"First, Ms. Rhodes-Hughes’s recollection was recorded decades after the events took place, which calls into question its reliability. Second, her declaration confirms that Petitioner was a shooter that evening," the judge wrote.
"Ms. Rhodes-Hughes states that she was in the kitchen, she saw Petitioner fire his gun, and she witnessed men attempt to subdue him. Ms. Rhodes-Hughes does not state that she saw a second shooter.
“She suggests that there was more than one shooter because she counted twelve to fourteen shots rather than eight, and she testifies that gunfire originated in both the left and right sides of the room….
"Ms. Rhodes-Hughes describes how she fainted, was trampled by individuals in the kitchen, awoke with a wet dress, and had one shoe knocked off her foot.
“A jury reasonably may have concluded that witnesses could not be expected to pinpoint the exact location of those two parties in the midst of such chaos."
Questions regarding a second shooter and how many shots were fired have long dogged the case, but O'Connell's ruling rejected evidence presented by skeptics, including an audio tape of the assassination that one expert witness has maintained proves there were two shooters.
"At most, Petitioner creates a sense of doubt about the number of gunshots fired in the kitchen on June 5, 1968," said the judge, "but contemporaneous eyewitness statements do not support a second shooter theory."
Arguments that Sirhan was hypnotically programmed, perhaps by the Central Intelligence Agency or other anti-Kennedy government or mob actors, were also rejected.
Sirhan’s next legal steps have not been announced, but the latest ruling is unlikely to silence skeptics, who have included one-time San Diego Tribune reporter Robert Blair Kaiser and author of the book R.F.K. Must Die.
"I am more convinced than ever that Sirhan Sirhan didn’t think this up all by himself, and that he killed Kennedy in a trance," writes Kaiser in the epilogue to the 2008 edition of the book.
"Yes, that he was programmed to kill Senator Kennedy and programmed to forget he was programmed. Of course Sirhan was lying much of the time. He was programmed to lie. That was part of the cover-up.

"Of course, he was a psychotic when he killed Kennedy. His programmers induced the psychosis. But it only lasted for a time. Sirhan worked through that sickness (if you need to call it that) as he gradually came to see himself as an Arab hero, giving himself a sense of importance that he had never felt before." 

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Donna Douglas dies; actress played Elly May on 'Beverly Hillbillies'





 Donna Douglas played Elly May Clampett and Buddy Ebsen played her father, Jed, on "The Beverly Hillbillies." "I loved doing Elly May," Douglas said. (CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images)

By CLAIRE NOLAND

Donna Douglas, who played Elly May Clampett on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” dies in Louisiana
Donna Douglas, a Louisiana beauty queen turned actress who tapped into her poor Southern roots for the role of Elly May Clampett in the long-running TV sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. Her age was variously reported as 81 or 82.
Douglas died of pancreatic cancer Thursday in Baton Rouge, La., her niece Charlene Smith told the Associated Press.
The show — about the down-home Clampetts who strike it rich with an Ozarks oil well and move to California — became an immediate hit when it began airing on CBS in 1962. It starred Buddy Ebsen as patriarch Jed, Irene Ryan as Granny, Max Baer Jr. as Jethro and Douglas as Elly May, a buxom tomboy character who had curly blond pigtails, wore gingham and blue jeans and loved her "critters."
It was far from a stretch for Douglas, who was born "way out in the country, outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana," she told the Toronto Star in 1988. "I really am a country girl.... My folks were real poor."
After winning beauty contests in her home state, Douglas headed to New York City in the mid-1950s in search of modeling jobs and wound up on television as a billboard girl on "The Steve Allen Show." She took acting lessons and landed a few parts in other TV series before writer and producer Paul Henning asked her if she thought she'd be right for his new show, "The Beverly Hillbillies."
"I just looked at him and grinned," Douglas told AP Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas in 1965. "Could I handle Elly May? Why, it was just like my own life."
She had to retrieve the Southern accent she had tried to lose, and she had no trouble with the dogs, skunks, mountain lion, chimpanzee and other animals Elly May adored on the series.
"I loved doing Elly May," the actress would recall. "And, of course, 'The Beverly Hillbillies' was a story about the American dream. No matter who tried to slicker us or take advantage of us, we always came out on top. We were never the losers. We set a good example."
Douglas' other TV appearances included a memorable 1960 "Twilight Zone" episode, "Eye of the Beholder," with a "before and after" storyline about a woman who undergoes multiple operations to change her appearance. Actress Maxine Stuart played the patient under wraps and Douglas had the "revealed" part.
She also landed a few movie parts, highlighted by a starring role opposite Elvis Presley in the 1966 riverboat musical "Frankie and Johnny."
After "The Beverly Hillbillies" ended in 1971, Douglas had a few other acting jobs and worked in real estate. Eventually she moved back to Louisiana and in her later years sang gospel music and gave inspirational speeches to church congregations and Christian organizations.
In 2011 she settled a lawsuit with Mattel Inc. and CBS Consumer Products after she argued they hadn't sought her permission to create an Elly May Barbie doll using her image.
"The Beverly Hillbillies" remained popular with TV viewers in reruns years after original episodes aired, and Douglas traveled widely to meet fans of the show.
"The two questions I get all the time are, can I really whistle, and do I really love animals," Douglas told USA Today in 1993. "The answer is yes to both."

Douglas, who was married and divorced twice, is survived by a son, Danny P. Bourgeois, according to the Associated Press.

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