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COLUMN EIGHTY-FIVE, FEBRUARY 15, 2003
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ABOUT A. J. BANNISTER

Subject: A J Bannister
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:02:54 -0700
From: Sandra Burkhalter <lowriderhd81@earthlink.net>
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com

Hello  

I came across your article on AJ about a year ago. i was a friend of AJ and of his wife Lindsay. I visited him twice in prison in the nineties. Originally I am from Switzerland, but I have been living in the US for a
few years now.

What I was wondering is if you know anything about what happened to Lindsay. I often think of her. It seems as if she disappeared from the face of the earth since AJ was murdered. Do you know anything?

Please let me know if you do.

Sandra Burkhalter  ##  

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HI FROM BEN BAUMGARTEN

Subject: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality -the void
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:22:27

From: "mode_bbaumgarten" bbaumgarten@modeinfo.com
To: "Al Aronowitz \(E-Mail\)" info@blacklistedjournalist.com

Al

how are you today?

always busy, isnt it?!

I just wanted to say hi, (no questions, no essays)read again, "george at the bobfest", the first time after his death, although I never met him,  Ive got the feel of knowing him, you know"..just through your words and detailed description of him,

its hard, when you "live" in the 60s (in your head, as a person who wasn’t born till 77) you spend a lot of time with people like george (all "fabs"), dylan,..et cetera.....when they were young, you know?"..and suddenly it fucks you up when you hear about such tragedy like georges death; its like getting  back from a better world to fuckin insane reality, you know it!

by the way, today its mick taylors 55th birthday (theres this "oldie"-radio-channel in germany, and today they finish me with stones, stones, stones, YEAH)

till the next time, Al

all the best

ben  ##

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YES, WE'RE ALL BUSY

Subject: a fun read!!!
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:28:16 -0500
From: Hayes Greenfield hayes@hayesgreenfield.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com

Subject: A.A.A.D.D.

They have finally found a diagnosis for my condition. I have recently been diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D., Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it goes:

I decide to wash the car.  I start toward the garage and notice the mail on the table. OK, I'm going to wash the car, but first I'm going to go through the mail. I lay the car keys down on the desk, discard the junk mail, and I notice the trash can is full.

OK, I'll just put the bills on my desk and take the trash out.  But since I'm going to be near the mailbox anyway, I'll pay these few bills first.  Now, where is my checkbook?  Darn, there's only one check left!  My extra checks are in my desk.

Oh, there's the coke I was drinking.  I'm going to look for those checks, but first I need to put my coke further away from the computer...or maybe I'll pop it into the fridge to keep it cold for a while.

I head towards the kitchen, and the flowers catch my eye, they need some water.  I set the coke on the counter, and there are my glasses! I was looking for them all morning! I'd better put them away. I fill a container with water and head for the flowerpots.

Someone left the TV remote in the kitchen. We will never think to look in the kitchen tonight when we want to watch television so I'd better put it back in the family room where it belongs.

I splash some water into the pots (and onto the floor), I toss the remote back onto a soft cushion on the sofa and I head back down the hall trying to figure out what it was I was going to do...

End of the Day:

The car isn't washed, the bills are unpaid, the coke is sitting on the kitchen counter, the flowers are half watered, the checkbook still only has one check in it and I can't seem to find my car keys!  When I try to figure out how come nothing got done today, I'm baffled because I KNOW I WAS BUSY ALL DAY LONG!

I realize this is a serious condition and I'll get help, but first I'll check my e-mail...

SEND THIS TO ANYONE THAT YOU THINK NEEDS IT BECAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER WHO I'VE SENT THIS TO. BUT PLEASE DON'T SEND IT BACK TO ME OR I MIGHT SEND IT TO YOU.  ##

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ABOUT MICKEY COHEN

Subject: Mickey Cohen
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:23:56 -0600
From: "Charlie & Sandra Davis" c_sdavis@bellsouth.net
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com

Hello, Mr. Aronowitz.  I enjoyed reading your "Column Seven, March 1, 1996, The Gift"  I obtained it off the internet while searching for information about Mickey Cohen.  I write a monthly column for a local magazine, "Dockside Publication," entitled, "Growing Up In Pensacola." The articles for my column comes from a book that will be published this year, also entitled "Growing Up In Pensacola." My February article has to do with my providing marine insurance coverage, in the early 1960's, on a boat named "Mic-Sue." The "captain" of the boat was to start running charters out of Panama City, Florida into the Gulf of Mexico in search of Blue Marlin.  By the time I secured the coverage, the "captain and the "Mic-Sue" had disappeared, and I never heard from him again.  However, I did hear from the F.B.I., who obtained copies of everything in the file. The F.B.I. Informed me that the "Mic-Sue" was owned by Mickey Cohen, and the boat was named  after Mickey and his girlfriend, whose name was Susan.  Does this ring any bells with you?  Do you know if he did indeed have a girlfriend named Sue or Susan?  Any help you can give me along this line will be much appreciated. Also, I would like to know more about your writing, as I found it interesting and easy reading.  Thanks very much.  Charlie Davis c_sdavis@bellsouth.net   or 3650 Ebb Tide Lane, Gulf Breeze, Florida  32563,
Ph. 850-916-1093  ##

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ABOUT RED RUDENSKY

Subject: Red Rudensky
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:06:31 -0500
From: "Timothy Rives" timothy.rives@nara.gov
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com ,paul.weiner@state.mn.us

Gentlemen,

I read your post on Red Rudensky with great interest. I wanted to let you know that we have the Leavenworth inmate case files on Rudensky, Charlie Ward, and Herbert Bigelow (of Brown and Bigelow fame) here at the National Archives-Central Plains Region in Kansas City.  

In Rudensky's case we actually have two files; during his first visit he known was as Morris K. Friedman.

The files of all three men are open without restriction.

Thank you,  

Tim Rives
National Archives-Central Plains Region  ##

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PETER TOWNSHEND BUSTED FOR CHILD PORN

Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: Dean]
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:34:29 EST
From: Amlegends@aol.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com

  this will be a meal ticket for some barrister  

Townshend Arrested

British rocker Pete Townshend has been arrested by police on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. The 57-year-old The Who rocker is being held in custody in London. Townshend invited police to his house in the city today, after admitting researching child pornography on the  internet to research a book he is writing about his own experiences with child abuse. He believes he was sexually molested during childhood. After  searching his house in Richmond, south west London, the guitarist was arrested. A police spokesman says, "He has been arrested under the Protection of Children Act 1978 on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, suspicion of making indecent images of children and on suspicion of incitement to distribute indecent images of children." Townshend's friends and family this weekend spoke out in support of the star ---who came forward on Saturday, after a newspaper reported that an unnamed rock star was being investigated by police as part of a massive child pornography inquiry. The Who bandmate Roger Daltrey says, "Pete was very angry about how easy it was to get hold of child pornography on the Internet. My gut instinct is that he is not a pedophile and I know him better than most." And model Jerry Hall, who says she has spoken to Townshend in the past about the problem of child porn, adds, "Peter Townshend is the least likely profile of a child abuser it is possible to construct and that is because he isn't one."

Source: http://www.imdb.com ##

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WHO OWNS JACK KEROUAC?

Subject: new Kerouac film from Edinburgh, Scotland
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:10:56 EST
From: Tappingmyphone@aol.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com

"Jack Shea's WHO OWNS JACK KEROUAC? is fearlessly compassionately honest. It is one of the most important films ever produced on Jack Kerouac and his daughter Jan Kerouac. The film faces, head on, the life and work of one of World Literature's most significant writers. Necessary questions are asked. Multi-faceted responses to the Kerouac ownership debate, to the lives, works, and deaths of father and daughter are presented. Original members of The Beat Generation are quilted with a new generation of poets and writers. But the film is more. Through Shea's brilliant production WHO OWNS JACK KEROUAC? becomes an epic Whitmanesque Road poem, terribly tragic, awesomely beautiful. I expect that fans, students, and scholars of Jack Kerouac will be viewing studying this film for years."

Ron Whitehead  

www.whoownsjackkerouac.com
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.wastelandpress.com
www.whitefieldspress.com
www.downtownrecording.com
www.unusualkentucky.com  ##

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