[AGL] I have in my private hands a public list...

[michele mason]

I had a good deal of "surveilance" after I wrote Reagan a bitter, 
bloody, threatening letter. And actually got a hand-written response 
addressing nothing.  mm

On Nov 18, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gerry wrote:


> I think the impetus for the "surveilance" and other under cover 

> operations was primarily due to the fact that LBJ, a Texan, was 

> president so the federal presence in the capitol city was heightened 

> because of both the VietNam war and the strong demonstrations against 

> it.

>  

> You're close, Frances. Don't forget that the previous president had 

> been assassinated by an apparent Leftist and security was strong 

> everywhere LBJ went. The Leftist presence in Austin was considered a 

> potential threat, lots of potential Oswalds on the campus in the eyes 

> of the Commie haters who dominated the law enforcement 

> establishment. The ultimate moment came when the national media, in 

> Austin to cover LBJ who was at the ranch, had some down time and 

> decided to cover a peace rally on campus. It was a big rally (during 

> the University Freedom Movement days) in the spring of '67.  Erwin 

> made an appearance and threatened to fire faculty and expel students 

> who were "making trouble". And it was all covered by the networks and 

> broadcast to America. It established Austin as a center of protest and 

> the ranks of the underground began to swell. It also radicalized a lot 

> of UT students who had been sitting on the fence. Thank you CBS, ABC, 

> and NBC...I think they were all there???

>  

> A few years later the underground was so large in Austin and so many 

> children of the power brokers were getting busted that they (law) 

> finally threw up their hands and let it grow. In a sense the battle of 

> Austin had been won and for several years following (until the growth 

> ate it all up) it was the new utopia.

> G

>  

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>> ----- Original Message -----

>> From: Frances Morey

>> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s

>> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 4:27 PM

>> Subject: Re: [AGL] I have in my private hands a public list...

>>

>> Mike,

>> Around the time you mentioned there was a publication at UT called 

>> the "Riata" in which stories of peyote use were written up for all to 

>> read. I'm sure this might have attested to the drug use allegations 

>> about the individuals on those lists.

>> I think the impetus for the "surveilance" and other under cover 

>> operations was primarily due to the fact that LBJ, a Texan, was 

>> president so the federal presence in the capitol city was heightened 

>> because of both the VietNam war and the strong demonstrations against 

>> it.

>> Remember Frank Erwin calling the students the "Dirty Nothings"? That 

>> was then, too.

>> While there is curiousity about knowing the names on the list, there 

>> is always the possibility that there could be repercussions. There is 

>> some truth to the fact that being accused is just as bad as being 

>> convicted. It's like touching a tar baby. Proving that one is not 

>> guilty is hard to do, and then there is the guilt by association 

>> phenomenon. I recommend that the list not be published on this list. 

>> You can always send hard copies to interested parties like BBBBBB.

>> Best,

>> Frances

>> Frances

>>

>> Michael Eisenstadt <michaele at ando.pair.com> wrote:

>>> Thorne,

>>>

>>> I believe that this list was unearthed or shaken loose

>>> by Sarah Clark Moriaty when she was working

>>> at UT, i disremember its aetiology. You might ask Dave M if he can 

>>> supply

>>> more details.

>>>

>>> I don't know its legal status or in what sense it is

>>> a "public document." Copies of it were xeroxed

>>> and distributed at one or another Ghetto Re-onion.

>>>

>>> I am bi-curious as to who Helen Yarborough might

>>> be. Perhaps she has written up her amorous encounters

>>> with Ghettoistas committed under the influence of

>>> peyote and folk music.

>>>

>>> Mike

>>>

>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>> From: "thorne dreyer"

>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

>>>

>>> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 1:41 PM

>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] I have in my hands a list of 82 names

>>>

>>>

>>> Mike,

>>>

>>> I'd like to see it. Wonder whose files it came from. What did the 

>>> cover

>>> say? The stuff onlike should be everything from Hamilton's files, 

>>> but we

>>> had to work fast in dallas with two scanners, etc, something could 

>>> have been

>>> missed. Nothing in Hamilton's files requires permission because it's

>>> public.

>>>

>>> Thorne

>>>

>>>

>>> ----- Original Message ----

>>> From: Michael Eisenstadt

>>> To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net

>>> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:31:50 PM

>>> Subject: [AGL] I have in my hands a list of 82 names

>>>

>>>

>>> Thorne,

>>>

>>> I have in my hands a 6 page list (with a cover page)

>>> of Ghettoistas and Ghetto sympathizers, 82 names

>>> in all, apparently compiled in 1964.

>>>

>>> (Parenthetically the pyschiatrists' report on the collective

>>> psychology of Ghettoistas which you reproduced made

>>> amusing reading).

>>>

>>> As it was not reproduced in the Texas Observer archive,

>>> you must not have seen our list.

>>>

>>> Unfortunately, there are at least a half a dozen current

>>> subscribers to AGL who are named and you would

>>> have had to ask permission of all of them to reproduce

>>> the list.

>>>

>>> Reading over the names again, I wonder if the Wayne

>>> Smith on this list would be the same ole codger who

>>> lives near Bastrop and who left this list in a huff?

>>>

>>> Also who is Helen Yarborough? She is identified as

>>> "sexually promiscuous" by the guy in the white socks

>>> who infiltrated the Ghetto partays. Sometimes

>>> redundancy is ever-so-telling. For example, the first

>>> line of Gay Talese's immortal classic Thy Neighbor's

>>> Wife, reads "She was completely naked!"

>>>

>>> Mike

>>>

>>

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