Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
Part I Before the Trip
1 Night 3
2 Dysgenics 9
3 Replace Their Despair 12
4 Tom Fletcher 17
5 An Article in Life 20
6 Poverty Obsessed 26
7 A Pioneer in Opposition Research 30
Part II Tuesday, February 13, 1968
8 1:00 PM-Vortex 37
9 Swango Fugate 41
10 Black and Proud 49
11 Reverend Connie 53
12 Just Pee in This Jug 60
13 Sedition 69
14 2:30 PM-Barwick 77
15 Three Licks and a Smile 80
16 3:30 PM-Hazard 87
17 5:00 PM-Yellow Creek, a Guy Who Wore Horns 91
18 Hell, I'll Handle This 94
19 A Prairie in the Mountains 101
20 The Globe Woman 107
21 7:00 pm-Pippa Passes, Reverend Baldridge 112
22 The Deepening Swamp 120
23 "Ulysses" 125
24 Campaign '68 129
25 Lurleen 132
Part III Wednesday, February 14, 1968
26 8:00 AM-Whitesburg 143
27 A Winter Tan 147
28 To Cure Poverty 151
29 10:00 am-Neon, Waiting for Kennedy 161
30 Nell 164
31 Make Yourselves Comfortable 167
32 A Worm in a Miniskirt 169
33 The AVs 175
34 The Cloverfork Newsletter 181
35 The Average Homosexual 188
36 Paper Bags 191
37 The War on Welfare Queens 197
38 Dave Zegeer 200
39 The Zegeer Files 204
40 All the Girls 209
41 4:00 pm-Prestonsburg 212
42 From the Kentucky Coal Mines … 215
43 … to the California Sun 220
Part IV After the Trip
44 Another Thing I Wish to Comment on Is Your Long Hair 229
45 I Knew Something Was Wrong 234
46 Cote's Cemetery 238
Acknowledgments 241
Sources 243
Index 253