THE KALEIDOSCOPIC FLICKER
Originally Published on theparisreview.org By Paula Mejia May 12, 2017 On Jean Stein’s greatest legacy, the narrative oral history. [...]
THAT’LL BE THE DAY! THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE LITTLE ROCK NINE
On the 66th Anniversary of the Integration of Public schools, I present “The Untold Story of the Little Rock Nine”— about nine Black high school students who were the first to integrate the whites-only Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, after the Supreme Court ruled in “Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka” in 1954 that segregating Black and white students was unconstitutional. Central High School in Little Rock would be the major test case for integration. And the nine sacrificial lambs and exceptional nine Black students who had been selected to be thrown to the huge wolf pack of 2,100 mostly racist, white high school students, and became known as “The Little Rock Nine.
VIDEO: LEGS TALKS WITH BLONDIE’S CHRIS STEIN
A LEGSVILLE ORAL HISTORY The legendary co-founder of Blondie, punk’s most eclectic pioneers, talks about ‘H.R. Giger: Debbie [...]
VIDEO: LEGS TALKS TO PUNK LEGEND IVAN JULIAN
Ivan Julian is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and, as a founding member of Richard Hell and the Void Oids, a punk legend! Ivan talks with Legs McNeil about his long and colorful career, including his time singing for a Led Zeppelin cover band, playing Build Me A Buttercup night after night, the golden age of NYC punk, his times in London, Macedonia and Guantanamo Bay — and his new album, Swing Your Lanterns.
ELIZABETH HAND INTERVIEWED BY LEGS MCNEIL – PART 2
The long-awaited conclusion to Legs McNeil’s interview with his friend Elizabeth Hand, the acclaimed author of more than fifteen books, including the Cass Neary mysteries. Her upcoming novel, A Haunting on the Hill, was inspired by Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House. In Part I, Legs and Liz talked about the iconic Cass, the punk rock photographer turned reluctant amateur sleuth. In Part II, Liz tells why she was selected by Shirley Jackson’s family to carry on the literary tradition – and more.
NARRATIVE ORAL HISTORY OF THE MONTH: BLOOD SPRINKLED ON MY FACE – THE ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY
Contradictory evidence was immediately destroyed, photographs were stolen, and FBI interviews were altered to complete the picture of Sirhan Sirhan as the sole assassin.
NARRATIVE ORAL HISTORY OF THE MONTH: BUNNY YEAGER LAUNCHES THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION!
In 2001 I interviewed the delightful Bunny Yeager at the Lowe’s Miami Beach Hotel for The Other Hollywood, my narrative oral history of the porn film industry, and found her to be charming and forthright and underappreciated. Bunny had a fascinating life and really was one of the main liberators who helped launch America’s sexual revolution in the 1960s.
ANDY WARHOL & BILLY NAME: HOW THE FACTORY BECAME THE FACTORY!
©2021 BY LEGS MCNEIL — ART BY BRIAN WALSBY | GERARD MALANGA, EDIE SEDGEWICK, BOB DYLAN, NICO AND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, LA MONTE YOUNG, BRIGID BERLIN, ONDINE, ETC., ETC…
NARRATIVE ORAL HISTORY OF THE MONTH: THAT’LL BE THE DAY! THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE LITTLE ROCK NINE
In honor of Black History Month, February 2022, I present “The Untold Story of the Little Rock Nine”—nine Black high school students who were the first to integrate the whites-only Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957
THE DARK SIDE OF THE SIXTIES PT 2: HOLLYWOOD SATANISTS
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
ORAL HISTORY OF THE MONTH: PARTYING WITH JOHN WATERS IN PROVINCETOWN
This is the story of the 1970s summer photographer Nan Goldin and writer/actress Cookie Mueller spent in P-Town in the Cape, partying non-stop with eccentrics like Philippe Marcade, John Waters, and other brilliant weirdos.
THE DAY LEGS’S EX WIFE POSED FOR ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Join us as we present A Legsville oral History featuring: Carol Overby (Legs' ex-wife). She recounts the times she was photographed by the great Robert Maplethorpe.
NARRATIVE ORAL HISTORY OF THE MONTH: WHEN LEE OSWALD THREATENED TO BLOW UP THE DALLAS FBI!
©2021-2022 By Legs McNeil | from: Tomorrow is canceled: The Uncensored Narrative Oral History of the JFK Assassination