Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover picture, of the killer and his pet dog, came from a roll of film in a camera found in his effects. With it was a polite note that is in itself a comment on the complexity of the problem of the psychotic in society. It asked that the finder have the film developed, and ended: "Thank you, Charles J. Whitman...
...Love My Mother." The evening before his trip to the tower, Whitman sat at a battered portable in his modest brick cottage. Kathy, his wife of four years (they had no children), was at work. "I don't quite understand what is compelling me to type this note," he began. "I've been having fears and violent impulses. I've had some tremendous headaches. I am prepared to die. After my death, I wish an autopsy on me to be performed to see if there's any mental disorders." He also wrote: "I intend to kill my wife after...
...back of the head, somehow also breaking several bones in her left hand with such force that the band of her diamond engagement ring was driven into her finger and the stone broken loose. "I have just killed my mother," Charlie wrote in a hand-printed note addressed "To whom it may concern." "If there's a heaven, she is going there. If there is not a heaven, she is out of her pain and misery. I love my mother with all my heart...
Harvard giveth, Harvard taketh away. In the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe, the world will be astonished to note, LSD gets panned by none other than Allan Y. Cohen, teaching fellow in Social Relations, and one of the first and most militant of the psychedelic proseletyzers...
Cohen presents his credentials early in the article ("I have taken LSD many times"), and a note reveals that he spent some time at Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert's Castalia Foundation. But then, when the acid-heads know he's on their side of the chasm...