August 8th, 1967

Cop riding around Haight Street all day announcing that somebody has stolen blue speckled pills from the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic. Poisonous.

Dealer murdered last week. Killer cut off his arm, drove around in the guy’s VW bug with the arm in the back seat. When caught & asked about the arm, he says: "I'm very, very hazy about that arm." Superspade, big acid dealer, also killed.

Cops break up protest on Haight Street. Hippie girl raped by 6 spades on Waller Street. They stick a broom handle in her & leave her for dead.

Friend of Rachel’s got busted for being in Golden Gate Park after dark. When cops tried to search him, he says they need warrant. Tells them he just got back from Vietnam, received Purple Heart for wound suffered from grenade. They beat him.

Riots in Milwaukee, D.C., Nashville, Portland, Wilmington.

159 dead on aircraft carrier. 600 strikes against North Vietnam Thursday.

Johnson wants 525,000 in Vietnam by next summer. Draft call for 17,000 in October.

23rd anniversary of Hiroshima.

LBJ has now allowed us to bomb within 10 miles of Red China.

On bathroom wall at I & Thou: "Where's Oswald when we need him?"

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