Mae Brussell

    Tim Canale maintains a web site in memory of the late Mae Brussell, an early critic from California who died in 1988.  The web site can be found at http://www.maebrussell.com/.  He has generously given permission for us to reproduce any materials that would be of interest to this class.
    Mae Brussell was the archetypal conspiracy theorist. She saw conspiracies in everything, many of which she claimed fit a common pattern. The JFK assassination was only one of them. As such, she can serve as a fine example of the paranoid world view spilling over into the Kennedy assassination. (To see this idea elaborated, see Conspiracy Theory.)

Tim's biography of Mae Brussell.
The Ballad of Mae Brussell, by Paul Krassner (High Times, September 1991)
Conspiracy Theorist Mae Brussell Dies of Cancer (The Monterey Herald, 4 October 1988)
CIA-Mafia Conspirators Can Rest Easier, by Warren Hinckle (San Francisco Examiner, 6 October 1988)
Interview in Conspiracy Digest of Winter 1978
Interview in Playgirl Magazine, August 1974, by Stephanie Caruana
Carmel Closeup: Mae Brussell (The Carmel Pine Cone, 29 September 1972)

Articles by Mae Brussell
    The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination (The Rebel, 22 November 1983)
    The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald
    Who Killed Congressman Larry McDonald? (Hustler magazine, February 1984)