The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture

One of the 1960s countercultures most fascinating characters was Kerry Wendell Thornley -- a writer philosopher Zen dishwasher enlightened prankster and possibly an Oswald double with disturbing ties to the Kennedy assassination. A lifelong provocateur Thornley was linked to many of the fringe elements of the time. He helped create the spoof religion called the Discordian Society and its tract the Principia Discordia. He coined the term paganism to describe various nature religions. And he befriended Robert Anton Wilson inspired the Illuminatus and gave his anarchic support to the Bavarian Illuminati a brilliant prank.