TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Monday, August 02, 2004

Libertythink has obtained two editions of the newsletter sent out to Bohemian Grovers, the Bohemian Club Library Notes. We thought we'd share them with you as this year's Grove winds down.

Issue 124, dated Mid-Spring 2003, details the Bohemian Club's key role in using comics to subvert newspaper journalism:

Here're the money quotes:

The early so-called funny papers came into being as apart of a revolution of mass communications, as urban newspapers attempted to reach out to a wider segemnt of the population than merely the traditional reading public. To use modern parlance, the funny papers were invented to help "dumb down" newspaper journalism. The innovation worked...

Jimmy Swinnerton's Little Bears if the San Francisco Exmainer is frequently regarded as the first regular use of comic art in an American newspaper... Swinnerton's role as a pioneer in this art form is of special interest to the Boehmian Club, for he later became not only a member of the club, but its president from 1929 to 1931.

(William Randolph Hearst, warmonger newspaper mogul and owner of the Examiner, was also a key Grover.)

Issue 124 also contains a revealing passage abuot recent Bohemian Club library acquisitions, connecting everyone from James Baker to the UC-Berkeley to their occultic grouping:

Issue 125, dated Summer 2003, devotes much of it space to the 1928 Bohemian production recreating the story of the occult Hindu myth, Nanda:

The letters section of issue 125 has big band leader Rex Allen and retired US Navy Admiral Ed Wilson writing in, and therefore identifying themselves as Bohemians.

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