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I thought “We Want the World: Jim Morrison, The Living Theatre and the FBI” by Daveth Milton was going to be a sensationalized and/or a conspiracy theory that pops up on the fringes of fandom, but it…

I thought “We Want the World: Jim Morrison, The Living Theatre and the FBI” by Daveth Milton was going to be a sensationalized and/or a conspiracy theory that pops up on the fringes of fandom, but it wasn’t. I found “We Want the World” to be an insightful look at what a lot of Doors fans think they know a lot about Jim Morrison’s performance at the Dinner Key Auditorium on March 1, 1969, and how Morrison was influenced by the Living Theatre and tried to bring their tactics to a mass audience at a Doors concert and the fallout of that performance and how it attracted the interest of the FBI and possibly even J. Edgar Hoover himself.

From the distance of over forty years The Doors “Miami incident” looks like a gross miscalculation on Jim Morrison’s part and a minor criminal offense of an excessive rock star. Part of that may be the official trivialization of the charges by Judge Murray Goodman who denied Morrison the first amendment defense Miami deserved. Had Morrison been afforded that defense, Miami may have loomed larger in the national consciousness as a landmark case of the 1960’s counter culture and freedom of artistic expression. At official levels it may indeed have concerned the establishment, men whose names now adorn our temples of justice and jurisprudence may have felt that Jim Morrison was a real threat that had to be stopped.

Read the article at The Doors Examiner.

 

 

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