Friends Of Justice Charles Manson Benefit Concert Flyer 1987
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Scarce Pro Charles Manson Benefit Concert Flyer from Nazi Satanist Organization “Friends of Justice”
Friends of Justice. “Friends of Justice Ask…” Friends of Justice. N.P. [1987].
Promotional flyer for a benefit concert series by “Friends of Justice”, a group formed by Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey and satanist musicians Boyd Rice (known as NON) and Nikolas Schreck of Radio Werewolf, intended to garner sympathy and a possible new trial for convicted cult leader and white supremacist Charles Manson then serving a life sentence for his role in the Tate-La Bianca Murders of 1969. According to the separate flyer for the New York City concert, “All profits will be credit to the account of Charles Manson, now incarcerated at San Quentin penitentiary, for whatever use he chooses.”
Although coached in the language of legal reprieve, the concerts — scheduled to take place around the world on the Spring Equinox of 1987 — were intended to “soft-peddle the [white supremacist] movement” (per a January 1987 letter from Boyd Rice to fellow participant James Mason, Nazi Satanist and author of the infamously popular text, Siege). In addition to Mason, who was scheduled to appear in Chillicothe, Ohio (where Charles Manson was incarcerated in the 1950s), other participants included Manson Family members Sandra Goode and Squeaky Fromme, the latter of whom also attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford.
While the Los Angeles concert, intended to take place at the Olio Theatre in Silverlake with performances by Boyd Rice as NON and Schreck’s Radio Werewolf, was cancelled after public outcry about its connections to white supremacy, the New York event, MC’d by Adam Parfrey, did proceed, including a performance by artist Joe Coleman as Professor Momboozoo and the planned attendance of many members of the Connecticut branch of the KKK. Coleman also provided the cover to Parfrey’s most famous book, Apocalypse Culture, also released in 1987.
In addition to founding occult fascist “think tank” the Abraxas Foundation with Boyd Rice (of which Parfrey was also a member), Nikolas Schreck was also the editor of The Manson File (1988) released by Parfrey’s Amok Press as well as the director of the documentary Charles Manson Superstar (1989), mostly consisting of prison interviews with Manson conducted by Schreck and his wife, fellow Radio Werewolf member and daughter of the Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, Zeena Schreck.
Despite his contact with the Schrecks, Manson himself apparently did not approve of the Friends of Justice’s efforts. Per a note written on another copy of this same flyer delivered to former cell mate and Manson In His Own Words co-author, Nuel Emmons, Manson said, “I would like to stop this or put you in charge of the money.”
8.5 x 11. Single sided Xerox flyer. Trifolded with minor losses of creases. Some toning and wear to edges. Very Good.
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