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Unfinished History

The Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue in the mid-1990s.
Photo: Chris Carlsson

Lenny Bruce's Mysterious Visit to the FBI, FBI Headquarters, Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue.

His FBI files indicate that, shortly before his death in 1966, Lenny went to their San Francisco office and asked them to investigate a conspiracy by various police departments to silence him. A retired New York cop has since admitted that this was an actuality.

--Paul Krassner, Preface to The Best of the Realist, p.7.

Jerry Mander talks about his stint as the advertising guy for the storied San Francisco comedy troupe The Committee, and seeing Lenny Bruce exiting the building across from City Lights Books where he had an office.

Video: Chris Carlsson and Nick Kasimatis

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 '''Jerry Mander talks about his stint as the advertising guy for the storied San Francisco comedy troupe The Committee, and seeing Lenny Bruce exiting the building across from City Lights Books where he had an office.'''