While Larry Buchanan was alive, you should have talked to him.
He was mainly a B-movie director, but he uncovered a lot of conspiracies in his films. He made two films about Marilyn Monroe and the conspiracy surrounding her death, one popular 1964 film called "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" (not to be confused with the one shown on TV in the seventies), and finally, in 1984, "Down On Us," a film that talked about the government death squad sent to take down New Left rock gods (Hendrix, Joplin, etc.)
Here's a quote from his interview with bijouflix.com, at a point when he talks about what "Down On Us" was about:
BUCHANAN: ...But I can tell you that Hendrix and Joplin were silenced by an ad hoc of what they call "Plausible Denial Committee," by money washed through Mexico, because of the [then] upcoming '72 election of Nixon.
It's all true, and everybody knows it in Washington, but no one can put their finger on it. And Morrison beat it! He staged his death in Paris. He didn't die until 1974, instead of '71. Very few people know that. We have the documentation.
BF: Morrison was alive for three years after staging his death?
LB: Absolutely. There was no body in the coffin, no doctor and no death certificate. We thought people would put it all together because on the very day that Morrison died in the south of France, his wife Pamela took her life here.
No one was able to put that together. And finally, of course, we decided to go ahead and do the film after a couple people got out of the act. There's only a slight reference to Nixon, very little. So it's mainly a rock story.What's that tell you? He seemed to have documentation...maybe Morrison
is dead.
My guess is that this is EXACTLY what happened to Jim Morrison. But, as in the case of James Paul McCartney, no hidden documentation is required to figure out what probably happened here; a pair of verifiable events recently happened that should convince anyone that this is probably the truth about Jim Morrison, provided they consider Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek a sane and honest man, as I do.
In, October 2001, Ray published his first work of fiction, "The Poet In Exile." The two main characters in the book are very thinly disguised characterizations of Ray ("Roy," the book's narrator) and Jim Morrison ("The Poet," who signs a postcard "J.")
In the book, "Roy" receives a few mysterious postcard sfrom "J." a few years after "J."'s alleged death. "Roy" uses clues in the postcards to track The Poet down. It turns out The Poet has been living on an island in the Seychelles for the last few years, having successfully faked his death and assumed a new identity.
"Roy" visits "J" on the island to catch up with his old friend. After reacquainting, the two begin to talk of starting up "the band" again. "J" is considering it by the time "Roy" leaves for home. Unfortunately, "J" then dies from lung cancer before the plans can get underway.
Now, considered on its own, this book could be considered merely the product of the author's vivid imagination-- or, to the more cynical, a mere cash-in from a man who is already a multimillionaire.
But here's the interesting part:
On July 21, 2002, Manzarek made an appearance on "The Conspiracy Zone," a short-lived show of dubious intent, which aired on the Turner Network Television channel (Channel 33 on my provider) and featured Kevin Nealon as host.
For those who never saw he show, here's how it worked. Five people discuss a conspiracy-related issue in a half-hour format: Kevin Nealon, three dead-serious guests specializing in the featured topic of the day, and a know-nothing guest comedian adept at humorous, yet ignorant, debunking soundbites. The three serious panelists would attempt to discuss the topic with the two comedians, invariably getting interrupted mid-sentence by Nealon or the guest comedian, after which the hand-picked audience would invariably laugh at the comedian's soundbites.
On one level, the show was an abomination, an obvious Illuminati attempt to enforce the mainstream perception that anyone taking any conspiracy theory seriously should be be ridiculed and dismissed without any investigation of the facts behind their theories, or even a chance to finish their sentences.
On the other hand, it was the ONLY TV show in which I'd EVER seen any TV exposure of serious researchers making detailed reference to the REAL conspiracy-- you know, the one detailed by authors such as David Icke, Jim Marrs, William Cooper and William Bramley. I am certain that the majority of the serious guest panelists on that show were fully aware before going on that they would be ignorantly ridiculed and constantly interrupted. I am also certain that most of them also knew that it was the ONLY TV program that would allow them on to speak of these subjects, period.
I imagine that it was probably canceled not because of ratings, but because as it progressed, the Illuminati probably noticed (possibly through Nielsen stats) that more viewers than they expected did see through the scam of the show and did actually take the ridiculed panelists seriously-- in other words, that the mass TV exposure of these ideas, despite the attempt to make them look ridiculous, did more to "spread the word" among the open-minded than to reinforce the view of "conspiracy theorists = loonies" among the more impressionable viewers.
Anyway, Ray appeared on the "Rock Deaths" episode,
saying in all seriousness that Jim Morrison had, in fact, faked his death, and that he had actually met up with Morrison a few times since his supposed death. Through the course of the show, he exuded intelligence and sincerity. I had the impression of a man who was not there to sell a book, but to get a message through in the only venue where people could both see and hear him as he relayed his message: "The Conspiracy Zone."
Now, The Poet In Exile is vague on the specific passage of time, and it's impossible to tell how many of its details were a direct mirror of the real story of Jim Morrison Post-'71.
But when you combine what Ray said on "The Conspiracy Zone" with the end of Ray's book-- in which "The Poet" dies of lung cancer a few years after faking his death-- then you have a scenario that is perfectly compatible with the idea that Jim Morrison actually died in 1974.
(BTW, are y'all aware that Elvis' middle name is misspelled on his tombstone? But that's a story for another day...)
To read the first chapter of The Poet In Exile, click here:
www.mcclure-manzarek.com/poetinexile.htmlFor those of you who are unfamiliar with me: I'm the guy who introduced the theory that James Paul McCartney "faked his fake death," meaning I think he hired a talented imposter and continued to play bass and write songs behind the scenes. To read the main thread of my Paul McCartney theory, click here:
60if.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=paul&action=display&thread=1063219993( BTW, I think the photo that begins this thread is probably bogus, as I'm going with the 1974 death date for Morrison. )
( BTW #3: One of my bands is a Doors tribute band, in which I play the "Ray" role. To see our website and hear a few MP3s from a show we did in December, click here: )
www.scatterdome.com/insane_theatre.htm
