The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology by Robert Niemi

Author:Robert Niemi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593764616
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

ALLEN GINSBERG’S APOTHEOSIS: READING HIS POETRY AT LONDON’S ROYAL ALBERT HALL, JUNE 11, 1965

1966

JAN. 1: NYPD officers raid the Peace Eye Bookstore a few hours after a midnight New Year’s Eve concert of the Fugs at the Bridge Theater (4 Saint Mark’s Place); they seize copies of Fuck You magazine, letters, books, and files and arrest Ed Sanders for obscenity; the ACLU soon takes the case, which ultimately goes to trial in the summer of 1967 (Sanders wins acquittal); JAN. 16: Ken Kesey is arrested a second time for marijuana possession; he jumps bail and flees to Mexico after faking suicide; JAN. 21–23: Producers Stuart Brand and Ramon Sender present the Trips Festival at Longshoremen’s Hall, 400 North Point Street, San Francisco (8:00 PM–midnight); FEB. 14: Ginsberg finishes the antiwar poem “Wichita Vortex Sutra”; Grove Press publishes Burroughs’s The Soft Machine and Kerouac’s Satori in Paris; MARCH: Kerouac sells his Saint Petersburg home and buys a house on Cape Cod at 20 Bristol Avenue, Hyannis, Massachusetts; APRIL 28: Random House publishes Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña; APRIL 30: Richard Fariña, 29, is killed in a motorcycle accident near Carmel, California, after leaving a book signing event; [MAY 16: FEARING THAT RED CHINA IS BACKSLIDING TOWARD CAPITALISM, MAO ZEDONG LAUNCHES THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION, RESULTING IN TEN YEARS OF TURMOIL, POLITICAL REPRESSION, AND SOCIOECONOMIC STAGNATION IN CHINA.] JUNE: Anne Waldman, 21, graduates from Bennington College in Vermont; JUNE 14: Allen Ginsberg testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency and argues against making LSD possession illegal; [JULY 14: RICHARD SPECK, A PSYCHOPATHIC DRIFTER, RAPES AND MURDERS EIGHT STUDENT NURSES IN CHICAGO.] JULY 21: Stella Sampas accepts Kerouac’s marriage proposal; JULY 24–25: With the Mothers of Invention at the Fillmore (San Francisco), Lenny Bruce gives his last performances; JULY 25: Frank O’Hara, 40, poet and art curator, is run over by a dune buggy on the beach at Fire Island and dies of his injuries; JULY 29: LeRoi Jones and three friends assault and rob Shepard Sherbell, 21, editor of the West Side Review, after Jones claimed that Sherbell owed him one hundred dollars for a play published in the magazine; an assault charge is filed in court but is dismissed on January 20, 1967; [AUG. 1: CHARLES WHITMAN, 25, KILLS TWELVE AND WOUNDS THIRTY-TWO WITH A HUNTING RIFLE FROM THE 307-FEET-TALL CLOCK TOWER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, BEFORE BEING SHOT TO DEATH BY POLICE.] AUG. 4: Lenny Bruce, 40, dies of a heroin overdose at his home in Los Angeles; the police allow the media to photograph his naked corpse on the floor of his bathroom; AUG. 16–17: Ann Charters visits Jack Kerouac in Hyannis, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod), and works with him on a Kerouac bibliography; SEPT.: Emmett Grogan, Peter Berg, and Peter Cohon (Peter Coyote) organize members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe into the Diggers, a political theater–anarchist–collective named after a communist religious sect in

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