John somebody?

[Jules Siegel]

Scott Wyant wrote:
> 
> Ted Samsel wrote
> 
> > Didn't this first show up in the late '60s with the Detroit scene
> >of the MC5 and the White Panthers?
> >Free John (somebody...) or something was a slogan from then..
> 
> Sinclair.  John Sinclair.  Arrested and sentenced to an absurdly long
> sentence for possession of two or three joints.  That he was the founder of
> the White Panthers had nothing to do with it, of course.
> 
> Scott Wyant
> scott_wyant at loop.com

I guess I'm becoming the world's worst name-dropper, but I knew John
Sinclair. Great guy. I went to Detroit to hear the MC5. "Kick Out the
Jams." I also did a lengthy interview with him which was published in my
collection "Record." Sinclair invited me to the Black Panther convention
in Berkely in 1969, which I covered for The New York Times Sunday
magazine. They rejected it but it ran as part of a Playboy article
called "Revolution," that also had some quotes from Pynchon (no
complaints from him, by the way). If people are interested, I will OCR
the interview with Sinclair and put it on line.

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