At Least Bobby Kennedy Said Thank You
Ed Sanders spent a year and a half gathering material for his book The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion. I’ve been investigating that case for six months on my own.
(Paul Krassner is the editor and Zen Bastard of The Realist, which is probably bly the most influential counter-culture publication never quoted in a record company advertisement. In-between, he writes books like How A Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years and edits Conspiracy Newsletter, as well as running around writing for publications like this one.
Krassner has been doing this for over ten years, ever since he stopped doing Playboy Interviews – he invented the form and took it to its most dazzling heights – and writing and talking in that scene. He is a co-founder of the Yippies and perhaps the foremost authority on the wit and wisdom of Lenny Bruce.
He is also about to start doing a column for CREEM, an idea of which
we are much enamored. When approached, Paul was at first hesistant, then grew interested. “Boy, I’d like to see the kind of mail I*d get. ” he said.
Title and subject matter: Questions. Your two cents worth can come here, for him. – Eds.)