Okay, I came across this passage in 'Travels with Doctor Death,' a
collection of articles by Ron Rosenbaum. I used to be quite interested in
the Kennedy assassination (that is, the first one), but I never made the
connection before. It's certainly possible that the BDP crew got their
collective name from this meme, given their established fascination with
the whole Robert Anton Wilson crowd. Besides, this way I don't have to
deal with liking a band named after a Led Zeppelin song. :)
"Black Dog Man. At first he was a furry shadow on top of the concrete wall
behind the grassy knoll. Certain audiovisual-aids types saw in blowups of
that furry shadow a manlike shape. In some blowups, they said, they could
see a man firing a gun. Skeptical photo analysts on the staff of the House
Select Commitee on Assassinations thought that the furry shadow looked more
canine than conspiratorial and dubbed the dark apparition Black Dog Man."
- Ron Rosenbaum, "Oswald's Ghost," 'Texas Monthly,' November 1983
What do you think, sirs?
C.
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