Underground publishing connected to national racial violence occurring days apart

Evidence

Sanders’s memoir recorded Burroughs’s visceral distaste for the Time reporter sent to cover the event but not the assassination of Malcolm X three days earlier at the Audubon Ballroom on Broadway at W. 165th Street in Washington Heights-a world-historical event that precluded the presence of Fuck You’s most prominent African American contributor, LeRoi Jones. “Word From the Right Wing,” one of Jones’s two pieces, begins “President Johnson / is a mass murder,” calls his wife “weird looking, a special breed of hawkbill cracker” and ends with Johnson’s mother, walked all night holding hands Hard. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 666