For Immediate Release:
Dateline: Ottawa,
Ontario
Thursday, June 10, 2021
San Francisco Chronicle, May 14, 1967 San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 1967 More on Mort Sahl here: But nothing that happened to him in that period could have prepared Sahl for the storm he walked into after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Far from convinced by the findings of the Warren Commission, Sahl joined forces with New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the most prominent backer of the theory that President Kennedy was not killed by a lone gunman but was, instead, the victim of a nefarious, CIA-backed plot. This is not the place to argue the merits of Garrison`s case, but there can be no doubt that Sahl`s turbulent, three-year involvement in it had a devastating effect on his career. With most of his nightclub outlets unwilling to play host to a comic who brought all 26 volumes of the Warren Report onstage every night, Sahl began to travel the college circuit, a largely forgotten figure whose income bottomed out at a mere $13,000 a year.
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