Doors' Jim Morrison to get pardoned in Florida

[The Straight Story]

Doors' Jim Morrison to get pardoned in Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Doors singer Jim Morrison will get a posthumous pardon for an indecent exposure conviction in Florida.

Charlie Crist, the state's governor, got a commitment for enough votes from other members of the state's Board of Executive Clemency to approve it.

Morrison was appealing the conviction when he was found dead in a Paris bathtub in 1971.

Thursday's meeting about the pardon will occur a day after the singer would have turned 67.

Crist can't issue a pardon on his own. He and the three-member Cabinet serve as the Clemency Board. Approval is required by the governor and at least two other members.

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[redirish28]

1. Indecent expouser? What did he do? Sorry born after 1971

[whathehell]

3. Alive and raising hell in '71....

I believe Jimmy did a weenie wag at a concert...Helluva guy, Jim.:wow:

[badtoworse]

5. He was falling down drunk at the time.

I was at a Doors concert in December 1967 - they were great.

[whathehell]

12. Yes, they were talented folks.

I do think that young jimmy was self-medicating some painful mental condition, though..Depression, something.

I think many drug/alcohol abusers of the time, and even now, are suffering psychologically...I've seen it in my own family and it's tragic.

[badtoworse]

14. We lost some great talent around then to drugs

Morrison, Hendrix and Janice Joplin all in a short period of time. I'm amazed Grace Slick is still alive .

[whathehell]

16. I agree....

I'm old enough to have seen Hendrix and now senior citizen Grace Slick in concert.

Yes...Grace..Amazing Grace...Now Seventy One years old.

[mrcheerful]

7. If memory serves me right the cops at the concert said Jim did a weenie wag

but no concert attendee ever came forward to make the same claim. Remember this was the south who were still waging war on Rock and Roll music as late as 71, I also think they made the arrest so they had an excuse to search Jim's dressing room and hotel hoping to find drugs. Remember this was the same era that they tried scaring kids away from drug use by such movie greats as LSD the deadly drug that caused deformed babies and by 1971 Jim was well known for his drug experiments.

[whathehell]

11. You may be right....

Trust me -- after all thees years, I'm not "doin' judgment" on Jim for the alleged wag for two reasons:

1. He's dead.

2. Even if he did it, I'm sure he was drugged to the max.

In my old age, though, I do look back at times and feel angry at all the young talent who "went out" in their twenties.

It's absolutely RIDICULOUS to toss your life away on drugs, especially that friggin' young.

[whathehell]

2. I'm sure

Jim will roll over in his grave with gratititude.:eyes:

[marew]

4. So glad our goverment is attending to important matters-- not!

Morrison wouldn't care. What a waste of time!

[FSogol]

6. We can all sleep a little safer tonight.

Typical gutless politics.

[gratuitous]

13. Maybe you will

But I worry that our impressionable youth will get the message loud and clear that it's okay to whip out your penis in Florida in 1969, and then we'll be in a fine fix, won't we? Only a President Palin will be able to save us! I saw it on Fox.

[pinboy3niner]

17. LOL!

People Are Strange. :)

[peekaloo]

8. Bwah. Nice legacy Charlie.

Hope you're forever known as the guy who pardoned Morrison's dick.

[whathehell]

15. Oh hell....

Mayor Daley pardoned Mrs. Murphy --and her cow -- for the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, just about ten, twenty years ago.

[peekaloo]

18. I sense a Light My Fire reference

;-)

[whathehell]

20. Good one Peekaboo!!

I didn't even think of it til you said it!

..Just not as quick as I yust ta be..B-)

[qb]

9. Most of those Crist is attempting to pander to will view this as an idiotic gesture.

Just another out-of-touch Republican.
:crazy:

[Erose999]

10. Meanwhile our gov't holds detainees at GITMO without any sort of charges against them.

I am sure this probably has some real implications for the Morrison estate though. I know they were thinking about moving him from Pere LaChaise to LA so maybe the pardon will help with that, as well as releasing and collecting income from posthumous releases of his Doors material.

[JonLP24]

19. As Jim Morrison Wins Pardon, ACLU Says Dead Rock Stars Shouldn’t Dominate Clemency Board Agenda

Backed by Florida's outgoing governor, former Doors front man Jim Morrison won a posthumous pardon today of his indecent exposure and profanity conviction resulting from a raucous 1969 rock concert in Miami.

However, the action today by the state's clemency board wasn't music to the ears of everyone attending the hearing, reports the Arts Beat blog of the New York Times.

<snip>
(Cop unhappy because it says wrong message to youth-my words)
<snip>

Also unhappy was the ACLU of Florida, which argued in a press release earlier this week that too much attention is being paid to dead rock stars, at the expense of the many live individuals who need the clemency board's attention.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/as_jim_morrison_wins_pardon_aclu_asks/