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  • Papa John and the Manson Women: The Dark Legacy of the '60s

    Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 6:25 PM | By Jessica Grose

    If you watched any of the trailers for Ang Lee's recent Taking Woodstock, you'd think that the '60s were a gentle-hearted, kooky time filled with benign cross-dressing and bad haircuts. There has been a thorough pop cultural rewriting of the '60s, which in reality was a time of national chaos, violence, and upheaval—the center was not holding, as Joan Didion said at the time. Two news stories dominating headlines today—about Woodstock-era rock star John Phillips raping his own daughter Mackenzie, and about the death of Manson follower Susan Atkins—remind us that it wasn't all folk songs and love-ins ... (Read more in Double X.)

  • James Bevel's Crimes Against His Daughters

    Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:01 PM | By Bonnie Goldstein

    Reading about the current trial of civil rights leader James Bevel, I am experiencing the same conundrum I've always felt about Bill Clinton's piggish behavior toward his wife.  Bevel was a companion of Martin Luther King and helped organize the Freedom Ride in 1960.  Bevel's significant role in the  movement, with his wife Diane Nash, was beautifully documented in Taylor Branch's biographies of Dr. King.  But, according to trial testimony yesterday in rural Virginia, Bevel repeatedly sexually abused at least one of his nine daughters for many years.  Bill Brubaker wrote in the Washington Post today, "The incest charge was prompted by a discussion some of his grown daughters had at a family reunion about experiences with their father when they were younger." The man was a hero but if the allegations are true, his personal acts are unforgivable. Apparently, at least one of his daughters finally agrees. 
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