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Nov/13

JFK/NYC/OMG: EXAMINING CONSPIRACIES ON THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK

19
Nov/13

jfk

THREE ROOMS PRESS PRESENT THE MONTHLY @ CORNELIA STREET CAFE
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St. between Bleecker & West Fourth Sts.
Friday, November 22, $20, 6:00
212-989-9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
www.threeroomspress.com

Fifty years ago this Friday, the United States, and the world, suffered a tragic loss, as President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as his motorcade traveled through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. For the last five decades, people have been arguing about what actually happened that day. On November 22, 2013, a group of artists will gather at the Cornelia Street Cafe to consider some of those theories for “JFK / NYC / OMG: Examining Conspiracies on the 50th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination.” Part of the ongoing Three Rooms Press series “The Monthly @ Cornelia Street Cafe: A Monthly Blend of Voices in Literature, Art & Politics Exploring Contemporary Ideas,” the JFK presentation brings together poet, novelist, and publisher Charles Plymell (Zap Comix), who was with Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg at the time of the shooting; Ginsberg protégé Peter Hale, who will read his mentor’s poem “Thanksgiving,” written the wee after the assassination; X vocalist Exene Cervenka, who, as Christine Notmyrealname posts conspiracy therapist sessions on YouTube; former Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart, who will discuss the impact of the JFK assassination on his generation; music journalist Legs McNeil ( Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk), whose next book will be Tomorrow Is Cancelled: The Oral History of the JFK Assassination; and Peter Carlaftes, the codirector (with Kat Georges) of Three Rooms Press and star of the one-man show Lenny Bruce: Dead and Well. The Three Rooms Press series continues December 6 at Cornelia Street Cafe with “The Best Things Come in Threes: Prose! Poetry! Party!” featuring three sets of three writers reading from their works.