Word: flynt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shooting of Flynt...
...Button Gwinnett Hospital, Flynt lay in critical condition. Surgeons began by removing much of his intestine. Then, in a second operation, they removed his spleen. After transferring him to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, doctors finally removed the bullet lodged near his spinal cord. It had cut spinal nerves, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors gave him less than a fifty-fifty chance of regaining full use of his legs. President Carter's sister, Ruth Stapleton, who had presided over Flynt's celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called...
...police had no explanations. Flynt occasionally received death threats -most recently at a rally in Cincinnati last year to protest his pornography conviction there. But he had lately been so confident of his safety that he was traveling without a bodyguard, though he had been advertising for one in newspapers. Local opinion was that although Flynt had no personal enemies, many people hated him for his opinions and his rambunctious life. Said Lawrenceville Mayor Rhodes Jordan, 60: "Somebody was sending Flynt a message, that they don't want his type of filth around...
Ever since Flynt came out of the Kentucky mountains to escape the poverty of his sharecropper family, he has led an aggressive life. He quit school in the eighth grade, entered the Army at 14, worked nights at a General Motors assembly plant, whizzed through two marriages, two divorces and a bankruptcy by age 21 and finally opened eight "Hustler" go-go bars around Ohio. He started Hustler, the most vulgar of the leading sex magazines, as a newsletter for his bars, and pushed it in four years to a circulation of almost 2 million, with a profit last year...
Among his hobbies, Flynt acquired a fascination for the Kennedy killing. He bought full-page newspaper ads offering $ 1 million for information leading to the arrest of Kennedy's murderers. In the underground Los Angeles Free Press, he published a report last month charging that a CIA-FBI conspiracy was behind the assassination. After last week's attempt on his life, Flynt's wife Althea, 24, publicly accused the CIA of shooting Flynt because he was about to publish the names of J.F.K.'s assassins in a Free Press special edition. From his hospital bed, Flynt...