Adam Gorightly's new biography of 60s counterculture icon Kerry Thornley, "The Prankster and the Conspiracy - (The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture)", is a well-researched, absolutely fascinating look at a life full of such bizarre twists and characters that it would be easier to swallow if it was fiction. But it's not. Thornley was friends with Lee Harvey Oswald, knew several key suspects in New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's investigation into the JFK assassination (and was himself accused of involvement with the plot by Garrison), was one of the first "pagans" to emerge from the hippie movement (and perhaps the first to start using that term at the time and popularize it in the culture) and along with Greg Hill and others (like Robert Anton Wilson) started the "joke" religion of Discordianism with the writing of the Principia Discordia (How I Found Goddess & What I Did To Her When I found Her) ." -quoted from disinfo.com

Adam Gorightly, who is also the author of "The Manson Mythos" has some excellent links on his site including exclusive Quicktime movies about Jack Ruby from Shamus McFarland.