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{{Short description|American author (1938–1998)}}
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| name             = Kerry Thornley
| image            = File:Kerry Thornley photo by Sondra London.png
| pseudonym        = Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst<br />Ho Chi Zen
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1938|4|17}}
| birth_place      = [[Los Angeles, California]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1998|11|28|1938|4|17}}
| death_place      = [[Atlanta, Georgia]], U.S.
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| alma_mater       = [[University of Southern California]] <small>(no degree)</small>
| period           = 1950s–1990s
| genre            = Counterculture
| subject          = Religion, politics, satire
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| spouse           = Cara Leach (1965–?)
| partner          = 
| children         = 1
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'''Kerry Wendell Thornley''' (April 17, 1938 – November 28, 1998)<ref name="groover">{{cite news | first = Joel | last = Groover | title = Kerry Thornley, philosopher, writer, friend of Oswald | url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=no&p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=Kerry%20Thornley&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Kerry%20Thornley)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=11&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no| format = fee required | work = [[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] | page = F8 | date = 1998-12-03 | access-date = 2008-03-24 | quote = [Thornley] moved to Atlanta in 1969 and became a fixture in Little Five Points, a merry prankster known for his chaos-inspired philosophy and psychedelic conspiracy theories...Co-author of 'The Principia Discordia,' a spoof of religion written in the 1970s, Mr. Thornley earned international attention as a founding father of "Discordian" philosophy... }}</ref><ref name="1998deaths">{{cite news | author = Staff writer | title = 1998 Notable Deaths in Georgia, the South | url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=no&p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=Kerry%20Thornley&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Kerry%20Thornley)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=11&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no | format = fee required | work = [[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] | page = D6 | date = 1999-01-02 | access-date = 2008-03-24| quote = KERRY THORNLEY, 60, Atlanta; founding father of Discordian philosophy whose early book on Lee Harvey Oswald became Warren Commission evidence }}</ref> was an American author. He is known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend [[Malaclypse the Younger|Greg Hill]]) of [[Discordianism]],<ref name="groover"/><ref name="1998deaths"/> in which context he is usually known as '''Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst''' or simply '''Lord Omar'''.<ref name="groover"/> He and Hill authored the religion's text ''[[Principia Discordia]], Or, How I Found Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her.'' Thornley also was known for his 1962 manuscript ''The Idle Warriors'', which was inspired by the activities of his acquaintance [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] before the 1963 [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]].<ref name="Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; December 5, 1998">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Kerry Thornley; Oswald friend |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A6UaAAAAIBAJ&pg=6595%2C5991845 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |date=December 5, 1998 |access-date=May 2, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Thornley was highly active in the [[Counterculture|countercultural]] publishing scene, writing for a number of underground magazines and newspapers, and self-publishing many one-page (or ''broadsheet'') newsletters of his own. One such newsletter called ''Zenarchy'' was published in the 1960s under the pen name '''Ho Chi Zen'''.<ref name="groover"/> '''Zenarchy'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> is described in the introduction of the collected volume as "the social order which springs from meditation", and "A noncombative, nonparticipatory, no-politics approach to [[Anarchism|anarchy]] intended to get the serious student thinking."

Raised [[Mormon]], in adulthood Kerry shifted his ideological focus frequently, in rivalry with any serious countercultural figure of the 1960s. Among the subjects he closely scrutinized throughout his life were [[atheism]], [[anarchism]], [[Objectivism]], [[autarchism]] (he attended [[Robert LeFevre]]'s [[Freedom School]]), [[Neopaganism|neo-paganism]], [[Kerista]],<ref name="kerista">{{cite web|url=http://www.kerrythornley.com/kerista/index.html|title=Kerista|access-date=2013-01-24}}</ref> [[Buddhism]], and the [[meme]]tic inheritor of [[Discordianism]], the [[Church of the SubGenius]].

==Personal life==
Kerry Wendell Thornley was born on April 17, 1938, in Los Angeles to Kenneth and Helen Thornley. He had two younger brothers, Dick and Tom.<ref name="family">{{cite web|url=http://www.kerrythornley.com/bio/family.html|title=Kerry Thornley's Family|access-date=2013-01-24}}</ref>

Thornley attended [[California High School (Whittier, California)|California High School]] in Whittier, California.<ref name="warren_p84" />

On Saturday, December 11, 1965, Kerry married Cara Leach at [[Wayfarers Chapel]] in Palos Verdes, California. They had one son, [[Kreg Thornley]], born in 1969. They later divorced. Kreg was a photographer, painter, musician and film maker.<ref name="family"/><ref name="kreg">{{cite web|url=http://kregthornley.com/|title=Kreg Thornley|access-date=2013-01-24|archive-date=June 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601063855/http://kregthornley.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Military life==
Having already been a reservist in the U.S. Marine Corps for about two years, Thornley had been summoned to active duty in 1958 at age 20, soon after completing his freshman year at the University of Southern California.<ref name="warren_p84">{{cite report |title=Warren Commission Hearings |volume=XI |page=84 |url=https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh11/html/WC_Vol11_0053b.htm |work=Warren Commission |access-date=18 February 2019 }}</ref> According to ''Principia Discordia'', it was around this time that he and Greg Hill—alias [[Malaclypse the Younger]] or Mal-2—shared their first [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]]tic vision in a bowling alley in their hometown of Whittier, California.

In early 1959, Thornley served for a short time in the same radar operator unit as [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] at [[Marine Corps Air Station El Toro|MCAS El Toro]] in Santa Ana, California.<ref name="warren_p84"/> Both men had shared a common interest in society, culture, literature and politics, and whenever duty placed them together, had discussed such topics as [[George Orwell]]'s famous novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' and the philosophy of [[Marxism]], particularly Oswald's interest in the latter.<ref name="warren_p87-90">''Warren Commission Hearings'', Volume XI, pp. 87–90</ref>

While aboard a troopship returning to the United States from duty in Japan (some time after the two men parted ways as a result of routine reassignment), Thornley read of Oswald's autumn 1959 defection to the Soviet Union in the U.S. military newspaper ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]''.<ref name="warren_p109">{{Cite web|url=https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh11/html/WC_Vol11_0060a.htm|title=History Matters Archive - Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XI, pg|website=www.history-matters.com|accessdate=September 1, 2023}}</ref>

==1960s==
[[File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|left|thumb| Thornley circa 1970]]
In February 1962, Thornley completed ''[[The Idle Warriors]],''<ref name="warren_p96">{{cite report |title=Warren Commission Hearings |volume=XI |pages=96–97; 109; 112–115 |url=https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh11/html/WC_Vol11_0053b.htm |work=[[Warren Commission]] |access-date=18 February 2019 }}</ref> which has the historical distinction of being the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald ''before'' [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]]'s assassination in 1963.<ref name="groover" /> Due to the serendipitous nature of Thornley's choice of literary subject matter, he was called to testify before the [[Warren Commission]] in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 1964.<ref name="groover" /><ref name="warren_p96" /><ref name="apobit">{{Cite news | title=Deaths: Kerry Thornley | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-19423817.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328202704/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-19423817.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 28, 2015 | publisher=AP Online | agency=[[Associated Press]] | date=December 4, 1998 | access-date=September 11, 2012|via=[[HighBeam]] }}</ref> The Commission subpoenaed a copy of the manuscript and stored it in the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]], and the book remained unpublished until 1991.<ref name="apobit" /> In 1965, Thornley published another book titled ''[[Oswald (book)|Oswald]]'', generally defending the "[[Lone gunman theory|Oswald-as-lone-assassin]]" conclusion of the Warren Commission.{{cn|date=September 2025}}

In January 1968, New Orleans district attorney [[Jim Garrison]], certain there had been a New Orleans–based conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy, subpoenaed Thornley to appear before a grand jury, questioning him about his relationship with Oswald and his knowledge of other figures Garrison believed to be connected to the assassination.<ref name="groover"/><ref name="apobit" /><ref>{{cite news
 |title=Writer Not Sure Oswald Assassin
 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YtUzAAAAIBAJ&pg=706,1957487
 |newspaper=[[The Miami News]]
 |date=Jan 10, 1968
 |access-date=18 March 2013
 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Thornley sought a cancellation of this subpoena on which he had to appear before the Circuit Court.<ref>{{cite news
 |title=Writer Seeks Cancellation Of Subpoena
 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cHJQAAAAIBAJ&pg=2407,6423840
 |newspaper=[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]]
 |date= Jan 20, 1968
 |access-date=18 March 2013}}
</ref> Garrison charged Thornley with perjury after Thornley denied that he had been in contact with Oswald in any manner since 1959. The perjury charge was eventually dropped by Garrison's successor [[Harry Connick Sr.]]{{cn|date=September 2025}}

Thornley claimed that, during his initial two-year sojourn in New Orleans, he had numerous meetings with two mysterious middle-aged men named "Gary Kirstein" and "Slim Brooks". According to his account, they had detailed discussions on numerous subjects ranging from the mundane to the exotic, and bordering sometimes on bizarre. Among these was the subject of how one might assassinate President Kennedy, whose beliefs and policies the aspiring novelist deeply disliked at the time. Later, the former Marine came to believe that "Gary Kirstein" had in reality been senior CIA officer and future [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] burglar [[E. Howard Hunt]], and "Slim Brooks" to have been Jerry Milton Brooks, a member of the 1960s right-wing activist group [[Minutemen (anti-Communist organization)|The Minutemen]]. [[Guy Banister]], another Minutemen member in New Orleans, had been accused by Garrison of involvement in the assassination and was allegedly connected to [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] through the [[Fair Play for Cuba Committee]] leaflet.<ref>[https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol10/html/HSCA_Vol10_0066b.htm 544 Camp Street and Related Events], House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 13, p. 128.</ref><ref>Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 497. {{ISBN|0-88184-648-1}}</ref> Thornley also claimed that "Kirstein" and Brooks had accurately predicted [[Richard M. Nixon]]'s accession to the presidency six years before it happened, as well as anticipating the rise of the [[1960s counterculture]] and the subsequent emergence of [[Charles Manson]] and what became his cult following. This led Thornley to believe that the US government had somehow been involved, directly or indirectly, in creating and/or supporting these events, personages and phenomena.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thornley|first=Kerry|title=Kerry Thornley's Memoir As Rendered by Sondra London. Mind Control.|url=https://sondralondon.com/tales/confess/29.htm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Thornley|first=Kerry|title=Kerry Thornley's Memoir As Rendered by Sondra London. The Manson Family.|url=https://sondralondon.com/tales/confess/13.htm}}</ref>

After [[Trial of Clay Shaw|Shaw was acquitted]], Thornley said he wanted Garrison to bring him to trial in order to clear his name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/T%20Disk/Thornley%20Kerry/Item%2021.pdf|title=Tampa writer asks trial in JFK assassination case |website=jfk.hood.edu|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

==Later life and death==
For the next 30 years, Thornley traveled and lived all over the United States and was involved in a variety of activities, ranging from editing underground newspapers to attending graduate school. He spent most of the remainder of his life in the [[Little Five Points]] neighborhood of Atlanta.<ref name="groover"/> During this time, he maintained a free series of fliers titled "Out of Order." This single page, double sided Xeroxed periodical was distributed in the Little Five Points area. 
Thornley became increasingly paranoid and distrustful in the wake of his experiences during the 1960s, both by his own accounts and those of personal acquaintances. For a time, Thornley wrote a regular column in the [[zine]] ''[[Factsheet Five]]'' until editor [[Mike Gunderloy]] stopped publishing the magazine. Struggling with illness in his final days, Kerry Thornley died of cardiac arrest in Atlanta on November 28, 1998, at the age of 60.<ref name="groover"/> The following morning, 23 people attended a Buddhist memorial service in his honor. His body had been cremated, and the ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean. Shortly before his death, Thornley reportedly said he'd felt "like a tired child home from a very wild circus", a reference to a passage by [[Gregory Hill (writer)|Greg Hill]] from ''Principia Discordia:''

{{blockquote|And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that Non-existence shall take us back from Existence, and that nameless Spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.}}

==List of pen names and titles==
List of pen names and self-awarded titles provided by Kerry himself on the role of Pope of the Discordian Society in an affidavit to the [[California School Employees Association]] (CSEA), on a legal case concerning a member of the society that refused to join the CSEA alleging that the Discordian religion forbade him from doing so:<ref name="csea">{{cite web|url=http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/csea_affidavit.html|title=Lord Omar's Affidavit to the CSEA|author=Kerry Wendell Thornley signing as Lord Omar|access-date=2008-04-06|archive-date=October 8, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008114448/http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/csea_affidavit.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

*co-founder of the Discordian Society and the Legion of Dynamic Discord thereof and co-author of ''Principia Discordia''
*Grand Ballyhoo of Egypt of the Orthodox Discordian Society
*Kerry Wendell Thornley, JFK Assassin
*Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst
*President of the Fair-Play-for-Switzerland Committee
*Reverend Doctor Jesse Sump
*Ancient Abbreviated Calif. of California
*Sinister Minister of the First Evangelical and Unrepentant Church of No Faith
*Ho Chi Zen (the Fifth Dealy Lama)
*Purple Sage
*Pope
*"I further declare that there is no truth whatsoever to the charge that Kerry Wendell Thornley is a fictitious identity created by the Warren Commission for its own mysterious purposes (Vol. XI, pp. 80+, Commission Exhibits and Testimony)"

==Bibliography==
*with [[Malaclypse the Younger]] ([[Gregory Hill (writer)|Greg Hill]]); ''Principia Discordia, or, How I found Goddess and what I did to Her when I found Her'', 5th Edition, September 1991, IllumiNet Press (Introduction by Kerry Thornley) {{ISBN|0-9626534-2-X}}
*Thornley, Kerry; ''Oswald'', New Classics House, 1965
*Thornley, Kerry; ''Zenarchy'', IllumiNet Press, June 1991 {{ISBN|0-9626534-1-1}}
*Thornley, Kerry; ''The Idle Warriors'', IllumiNet Press, June 1991 {{ISBN|0-9626534-0-3}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
*[[Omar Khayyam]]
*[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]]

==Notes==
===Inline citations===
{{Reflist}}

===References===
* Biles, Joe G.; ''In History's Shadow: Lee Harvey Oswald, Kerry Thornley & the Garrison Investigation'', Writers Club Press, April 2002 (foreword by [[Robert Buras]]) {{ISBN|978-0-595-22455-5}}
* Gorightly, Adam; ''The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture'', Paraview Press, November 2003 (foreword by [[Robert Anton Wilson]]) {{ISBN|978-1-931044-66-0}}
* {{cite web |title=Testimony of Kerry Wendell Thornley |url=https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh11/html/WC_Vol11_0046b.htm |work= Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XI |publisher=History Matters |pages=82–115 |date=May 18, 1964 |access-date=October 14, 2009}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Chidester |first=David |year=2005 |title=Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-93824-3 |pages=190–212 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Cusack |first=Carole M. |year=2016 |title=Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-11325-6 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-last=Cusack |editor2-first=Steven J. |editor2-last=Sutcliffe |title=The Problem of Invented Religions |year=2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-37335-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=6DBEDwAAQBAJ&dq=discordianism+%22greek+goddess+eris%22&pg=PT93 93] |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |first=Erik |last=Davis |title=High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies |publisher=Strange Attractor Press / MIT Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-907222-87-0 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |editor-first=Adam |editor-last=Gorightly |title=Historia Discordia: The Origins of the Discordian Society |publisher=RVP Press| year=2014 |isbn=978-1618613219 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-last=Cusack |editor2-first=Pavol |editor2-last=Kosnáč |first=J. C. |last=Greer |chapter='Discordians stick apart': The institutional turn within contemporary Discordianism |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-11325-6 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |editor1-first=Karina |editor1-last=Jakubowicz |editor2-first=Robert |editor2-last=Dickins |title=Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century |year=2021 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-35916-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Mäkelä |first1=Essi |last2=Petsche |first2=Johanna J. M. |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-last=Cusack |editor2-first=Steven J. |editor2-last=Sutcliffe |title=The Problem of Invented Religions |year=2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-37335-3 |chapter=Serious Parody: Discordianism as liquid religion |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DBEDwAAQBAJ&dq=discordianism+%22greek+goddess+eris%22&pg=PT93 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |editor-first=Adam |editor-last=Possamai |title=Handbook of Hyper-real Religions |year=2012 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-22694-4 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last=Rathbone |first=S. |year=2017 |title=Anarchist literature and the development of anarchist counter-archaeologies |journal=World Archaeology |volume=49 |number=3 |pages=291–305 |doi=10.1080/00438243.2017.1333921 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Robertson |first=David G. |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-last=Cusack |editor2-first=Alex |editor2-last=Norman |title=Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production |year=2012 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-22187-1 |chapter=Making the Donkey Visible: Discordianism in the Works of Robert Anton Wilson |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aRyJ-vbrJsC&dq=Discordia&pg=PA421 |pages=421–444 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Robertson |first=David G. |chapter=SubGenius vs The Conspiracy: Playfulness and sincerity in invented religions |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-last=Cusack |editor2-first=Pavol |editor2-last=Kosnáč |title=Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From Popular Culture to Religion |year=2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-13549-4 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CIlDwAAQBAJ |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Versluis |first=A. |year=2014 |title=American Gurus: From American Transcendentalism to New Age Religion |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-936813-6 |ref=none}}
*{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Robert Anton |author-link=Robert Anton Wilson |title=[[Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati]] |date=1992 |publisher=[[New Falcon Publications]] |location=Scottsdale, AZ |isbn=978-1-56184-003-8 |ref=none}}

==External links==
*{{wikisource author-inline}}
* {{official website|http://www.kerrythornley.com/|Unofficially-Official}}
* Works:
** {{cite book |url= https://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia |display-authors= 0 |first= Kerry |last= Thornley |edition= Fifth |publisher= IllumiNet Press |title= Principia Discordia |quote= If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe |date= 1991 <!-- |first= Eric |last= Tilton |website= http://www.ology.org --> }}
** {{cite web |url= http://www.grouchogandhi.com/gg-discordian-certificate.php |title= Thornley's Pope certificate |format= Blank form |website= Groucho Gandhi <!-- <img src="http://www.grouchogandhi.com/site/gg-discordian-certificate.jpg"> --> |access-date= October 8, 2006 |archive-date= November 2, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061102014931/http://www.grouchogandhi.com/gg-discordian-certificate.php |url-status= dead }}
** {{cite web |website= Impropaganda |url= http://www.impropaganda.net/1997/zenarchy.html |title= Zenarchy |date= 1997 |access-date= July 29, 2006 |archive-date= February 11, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100211113154/http://www.impropaganda.net/1997/zenarchy.html |url-status= dead }}
** {{cite web |website= Impropaganda |quote= First 30 issues |url= http://www.impropaganda.net/1997/kultcha.html |title= Kultcha |series= Broadsheet newsletter |date= 1997 |access-date= July 29, 2006 |archive-date= June 27, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070627162218/http://www.impropaganda.net/1997/kultcha.html |url-status= dead }}
** {{cite web |website= Impropaganda |date= 1991 |publisher= NY Press |url= http://www.impropaganda.net/thornley/thornley_nypress_1991.php |title= Oswald's Other |format= Image |first= John |last= Strausbaugh |series= Review |access-date= July 29, 2006 |archive-date= June 2, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060602114518/http://www.impropaganda.net/thornley/thornley_nypress_1991.php |url-status= dead }}
** {{cite web |quote= 113 scanned and full-text issues |url= http://www.decadentworker.com |title= The Decadent Worker |series= Broadsheet newsletter |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 6, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090106014448/http://www.decadentworker.com/ }}
** {{cite magazine |url= http://www.ibiblio.org/ovo127/media/OVO017.pdf |title= The Dreadlock Recollections |magazine= OVO |volume= 20 |issue= 17 |date= Feb 2007 |publisher= Ibiblio |access-date= 2008-03-25 |url-status= dead |archive-date= June 30, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070630114219/http://www.ibiblio.org/ovo127/media/OVO017.pdf }}
** {{cite web |url= http://totse.totse2.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/thornlet.html |title= The Vril, the CIA, and Nazi Secret Societies |work= Correspondence |display-authors= 0 |first= Kerry |last= Thornley |url-status= dead |archive-date= February 4, 2013 |archive-url= <!-- https://archive.today/20130204192211/http://totse2.com/totse/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/thornlet.html --> https://archive.today/20130204192211/http://totse2.com/totse/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/thornlet.html }}
** {{cite magazine |url= http://freemania1.com/thornley1.html |title= In Defense of Libertarian Communism |display-authors= 0 |first= Kerry |last= Thornley |quote= Comments by Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK) |magazine= Strategy of the New Libertarian Alliance |issue= #2 May Day 1982-3 |access-date= 2008-03-25 |url-status= usurped |archive-date= September 28, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928203516/http://freemania1.com/thornley1.html }}
* [[Sondra London]]:
** {{cite web |url= http://sondralondon.com/attract/kerry/ |title= 23 offerings of Prime Erisiana |display-authors= 0 |first= Sondra |last= London |url-status= dead |archive-date= October 8, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071008041736/http://sondralondon.com/attract/kerry/ }}
** {{cite web |display-authors= 0 |first= Sondra |last= London |title= Erisiana |url= http://www.sondralondon.com/new/thornley/thornley.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= February 9, 1998 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19980209215300/http://www.sondralondon.com/new/thornley/thornley.html }}
** {{cite web |display-authors= 0 |url= https://www.subgenius.com/updates/X0012_Kerry_Thornley_R.I.P.html |title= Kerry Thornley R.I.P. |series= Obituary |author-link= Sondra London |first= Sondra |last= London |website= SubGenius |date= Nov 1998 }}
* {{cite web |series= Orleans Parish Grand Jury Transcript |url= https://www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/garr/grandjury/Thornley/html/Thornley_0001a.htm |title= Testimony of Kerry W. Thornley |website= History Matters }}
* {{cite book |chapter-url= http://www.paraview.com/gorightly/gorightly_excerpt.htm |title= The Prankster and the Conspiracy |chapter= Foreword |first= Robert Anton |last= Wilson |author-link= Robert Anton Wilson |website= ParaView |year= 2003 |publisher= Cosimo |isbn= 193104466X |access-date= March 30, 2004 |archive-date= April 15, 2004 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040415132648/http://www.paraview.com/gorightly/gorightly_excerpt.htm |url-status= dead }}
** {{cite web |work= Excerpts |first= Adam |last= Gorightly |url= http://www.steamshovelpress.com/offlineillumination13.html |title= The Prankster and the Conspiracy |publisher= Steamshovel Press |access-date= March 30, 2004 |archive-date= April 7, 2004 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040407221618/http://www.steamshovelpress.com/offlineillumination13.html |url-status= dead }}
* {{cite web |url= http://historiadiscordia.com/ |title= Historia Discordia |quote= Documenting the Origins, History & Chaos of the Discordian Society}}

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