Kenosha

james armstrong hfoao089 at huey.csun.edu
Fri May 12 11:47:51 CDT 1995


On Fri, 12 May 1995 LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu wrote:

> 
> John asks:
> "What/where/who the hell *is* Kenosha anyway? (I didn't do it, kid)."
> 
> Kenosha is a city in Wisconsin on Lake Michigan, about half-way between
> Milwaukee and Chicago (and close by Racine).  As to the Kid, I haven't a
> clue.  Some have speculated that the Kenosha Kid is actually Orson Welles,
(snip...)

I thought the Kenosha Kid was a reference to Malcolm X.  In his 
autobiography there's a reference (somewhere) to him being called the 
Kenosha Kid.


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