Lenny Bruce at FBI
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.