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Aug 26, 2016 07:32AM
These images have a common theme that had a lot to do with crime in a certain era. What is that theme?
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I love my new tool of right clicking on an image and searching for it. That way I found out that bottom picture was of my "friend" Ed Kemper. I have never seen that one before. He was a cute kid.
And a mighty tall one! I agree he was a real looker.
I know you are going to BZZT me. All I can think of is "don't trust anyone over 30", anti-authority, anti-parents, anti-establishment.But Kemper was definitely not the hippie type at all although he was very anti-parents and anti-grandparents.
But what about the anti-establishment types? What common thread ties all those photos together?
They rebelled against the establishment.Still having a hard time fitting Kemper in this group. He just wasn't the 60's stereotype we think of.
And that's part of the reason he's in this photo lineup. Because of the common thread running through these images.
Jack will continue to laugh at you until SOMEONE answers this question!
End-of-the-world/revolution type fantasies?
BZZT and BZZT!Nobody in the first photo or the fourth one broke the law; I'm not aware of any end-of-the-world thinking associated with the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th or 8th.
Keep trying peeps!
Does it have something to do with drug culture?
What ABOUT the 1960s? That's about a quarter of a ding there! What ABOUT the drug culture? That's another quarter of a ding!
Did these things all take place in California?
Dang, those people in the pic third from the bottom look familiar but I cant place them.
Those folks are Victor and Virginia Ohta and the guy who killed them, John L. Frazier.
Fishface wrote: "Those folks are Victor and Virginia Ohta and the guy who killed them, John L. Frazier."OK. I guess I didn't know them after all.
You didn't answer my answer. Does California have something to do with the theme?
Not California specifically. The fifth photo from the top was taken in Detroit, in fact.
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Anti-War? (although I don't think Kemper was)
No, Kemper was perfectly in agreement with the philosophical viewpoint expressed by all of the photos posted above.
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They were all part of the student counterculture,Kemper preyed on students of that counter culture?
BZZT! But you're within biting distance, Lee!
It's actually easy. If you know the answer. Let's recap: It DOES have something to do with the counterculture. All of these photos express the same thing ABOUT the counterculture. Now what is that?
OK, I can't stand the suspense any longer so I'll answer. The common theme is all these photos is FEAR OF HIPPIES.Top: National Guard in an armed faceoff with hippies, who are armed only with flowers.
Next: The Manson Family keeping vigil outside the courthouse as their beloved leader is tried for murder. This of course was THE fear-of-hippies watershed moment in American history. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
Next: A scene from EASY RIDER. At the end of the movie the guys in this photo are attacked by rednecks with clubs -- for no other reason than that they are hippies.
Next: Buck Walker in court for murdering the Grahams. As soon as he and his girlfriend arrived on the remote island where the Grahams met their doom, everyone else was instantly suspicious of them -- because they were hippies. See And the Sea Will Tell.
Next: The bedroom at Stonehead Manor in Detroit, MI where Arville Garland learned his daughter had moved in with her boyfriend. He barged in and ventilated everyone he could find with his service revolver. Why? She'd become a rassa frassa, sassafrassin' HIPPIE living in a HIPPIE COMMUNE. See Murder Trial of Wilbur Jackson.
Next: The Ohtas with their killer, Michael Frazier, a psychotic HIPPIE. See Urge To Kill.
Next: A scene from PSYCH-OUT, a horror movie about the dangers of getting involved with HIPPIES and their rassa frassin' drugs.
Last: Clean-cut serial killer Ed Kemper, who when asked about the type of woman he chose to decapitate, then have sex with, shuddered and said "I'd never touch a dirty HIPPIE." See Why: The Serial Killer In America.
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(not really)
BUT STILL
A lot of you were close. Biting distance, as Jeff Dahmer might have said.
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (other topics)And the Sea Will Tell (other topics)
The Murder Trial of Wilbur Jackson: A Homicide in the Family (other topics)
Urge to Kill (other topics)
Why-The Serial Killer in America (other topics)
