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CONFIDENTIAL PERSONNEL FILE (HIGH RISK ALPHA R [RED])
SUBJECT:
Shepherd, Jean
CLASSIFICATION:
Highly confidential: Level One (red) Distribute to G2 A cleared personnel.
MILITARY
RECORD:
Three years US Army signal corps, rising from Private to Corporal in that
period. (Monitor enclosed LP
cut relating to V.D.)
ASSOCIATIONS:
Subject has long attend of suspicious and highly controversial contacts.
Example: Paul Krassner, notorious editor of so-called underground
paper THE REALIST stated: "Shepherd
is one of the four most
influential satirists in
America."
Shel Silverstein, cartoonist, self-proclaimed Folksinger and
composer of various borderline raffish material:
"Jean Shepherd is a dirty
rotten one-way sneaky son of a bitch."
Otherconfidants include innumerable members of various oddball
factions.
ACTIVITIES:
Subject Shepherd has spent most of his life on the run.
Following is brief catalog of his many acts against the Commonweal: has
written voluminously for The Village
Voice, The Realist, National Lampoon,
Car and Driver and most
persistently Playboy.
This list indicates subject may well be considered a negative
element in Society.
Won the annual
Playboy Humor/Satire Award four
times. IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS PAY
CASH, his first novel, was a best seller.
Currently WANDA HICKEY'S
NIGHT
OF GOLDEN MEMORIES, AND OTHER
DISASTERS is on the national Best Seller list, has gone into many
editions; both published by Doubleday (NOTE: RUN FULL CHECK ON
DOUBLEDAY)
Has performed in concert on innumerable college stages, including
such otherwise respectable institutions as Princeton, the University of
Missouri and the University of Miami.
Demoralizing effect upon student body through these irreverent,
subversive performances boggles the imagination.
Nationwide TV (PBS) series JEAN
SHEPHERD'S
AMERICA drew unstinting
praise from many heretofore highly respected
critics who are now under investigation.
FAA files state he holds Pilot's License #1895050, useful for quick
escapes.
His nightly radio show on WOR in
New York has contributed more to decline of morality and pure thinking
than any other single regularly broadcast show.
SUMMARY:
Nightly, daily, hourly, weekly, in every conceivable medium:
print, stage, theater, TV, radio, tape recordings, subway graffiti, with
maniacal purpose and superhuman dedication, subject has hammered away
at the pillars of Society with the clever sagacity and inspired
slipperiness of a madman.
He must be stopped!
SPECIFIC
INSTRUCTIONS:
Enclosed LP record is composed of wiretap materials and electronically
obtained specimens of his outrageous outpouring. Accomplices on this
record are a group of malcontents who call themselves The
Sons Of The Whiskey Rebellion, a purported Dixieland aggregation from
Flemington, New Jersey.
On the record, subject thumps upon his head in
musical fashion, in reality a sinister code which breaks down under
oscilliographic and spectromodic analysis.
Much of the LP was recorded in concert at Princeton University,
produced by special agent Michael Rashkow with the aid and assistance of
Leigh Brown and Jerry Lambert of
the Central Bureau.
GENERAL
CONCLUSIONS:
WATCH THIS SON OF A BITCH!
SIGNED:
The Chief
SIDE
1
1.
Unsolicited Testimonials — 6:34
2.
Superman, the Telltale Underwear, the Emergency on the Turnpike or
the Ralph Nader Blues, and other mysterious Unrelated Subjects — 5:25
3.
The Three Little Piggies and Dr. Spock — 5:31
SIDE
2
1.
Kopfspeilen, the Reader's Digest, the Preparation H Man and How To
Screw The Tax People — 7:45
2.
This U.S. Signal Corp Classified film is rated R — 74:40
Live
portions recorded at Princeton University
All
selections written by Jean Shepherd except "Hindustan" written
by Oliver G Wallace & Harold Weeks published by Venus Music Corp.
& Forster Music Publ. (ASCAP)
Mastering:
Phil Austin, Mercury Sound
Produced,
edited, assembled and mixed by Mike Rashkow (P.S. I also make very good
chopped liver)
A Pineywood Production.
Technical
assistance and moral support: Chuck Irwin.
Thanks to Grant Ellerback for some special wires that worked.
Instrumental
Background Music by The Sons of the Whisky Rebellion
Head thumping by Jean Shepherd ... Jews Harp, Jean Shepherd
Special Assistance by Jerry Lambert
Cover
Illustration: Warren Linn.
Art Director: Des Strobel
Liner Photo: Burnell Caldwell
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