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Neanwhile, I also discovered psychedelics, and as a result began
militant atheism and rigid rationalism. My psychedelic experiences,
questioning another major plank in Ayn Rand's philosophy -- her
out exception deeply mystical. I came to feel that the universe
amounting to slightly over a dozen LSD sessions in all, were with-
was infinitely more profound, and filled with many more unexpect-
able possibilities, that I had supposed.
In December of 1965, just after our marriage, Cara and I journeyed
by bus to Pennsylvani to visit her parents, and we went by way of
New Orleans, making a stopover there for approximately 24 hours.
Luring this time we visited with Clint Bolton, Vic Latham, and
I believe I saw Slim Brooks (and I think that this was when he was
living near Decatur Street, up near the Esplanade end of the Quarter,
possibly on Chartres).
I am now certain I did not see Gary Kirstein on this visit.
(When the Atlanta Police Intelligence people asked me last July if
I had seen Gary since 1964 a possibility which had not occurred
to me until then, and which terrified me -- I held out the remote
possibility that I had scen him during this 1965-visit, and forgotten
about it because, until recently, Gary seemed like a marginal and
unimportant figure in my life.)
I do not recall what Slim and I talked about. I recall regard-
ing Clint only that I introduced him to Cara in the Bourbon House
and he told her that she must be a good influence on me, because
while I still had all the old fire of my French Quarter days, I
no longer had the unbearable intensity. I remember that we visited
Vic in his apartment and I told him that libertarian capitalism was
becoming increasingly irrelevant for me, and that I now felt the
major need for social change was in the area of sexual liberation.
Vic answered that he believed the Pill was going to insure profound
changes in social attitudes towards sexuality.
Lalso remember dropping by, early in the morning, without Cara,
to see Barbara Reid.
I feel that I need to backtrack a bit on my relationship with
Barbara, since it was to assume so much importance a few years
later, in 1968.
at
Strortly after the assassination, late one night A her house
(where a gigantic voodoo altar took up almost half of one room),
Barbara informed me that she was certain she had seen me with
Lee Harvey Oswald, in the Bourbon House, during, September (1963).
My first reaction was to protest that such was impossible be-
cause Oswald and I had not been in New Orleans at the same time.
But she got out some recent newspapers and demonstrated to me that
we had indeed been in town at the same time during much of Septem-
ber.
She reminded me of the incident, which I have previously covered,
when she turned from the bar and complimented me on my voice.
Indeed, I could remember the incident, but could not recall for
certain who I was sitting with at the time -- but I was at least
sure it wasn't Oswald, since I had not seen him since 1959.
Barbara, with the most formidable certainty imaginable, insisted.
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