AJ Weberman:
CLASS OF 1960
Erasmus Hall High SchoolClass of 1960
Brooklyn, NY
AJ's Story
AJ is from Manhattan, New York. AJ is married. AJ's schools include Erasmus Hall High School. AJ works(ed) at Independent Research Associates, High Times.
AJ's interests include Isla Vista shooting, National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students, Jimi Hendrix. Music AJ likes includes Frogdaiquiri, Dubious Bakery, Chuck Prophet Official. Books AJ likes include Audience Artists, Big Mama Thornton: The Life and Music., The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob. Movies AJ likes include Glory Daze, Antigone - The Story of Dana Beal, A Million Ways To Die In The West. TV shows AJ likes include 6abc Action News, The 700 Club, Jeopardy!.
One of AJ's favorite quotes is:"Preacher was preachin there's a sermon he gave / He said every man's conscious is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide / For its you who must keep it satisfied - B. Dylan".
More about AJ:"A.J. WEBERMAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
This researcher's great-grandfather, Moishe WEBERMAN came here from Hungary in 1870 and opened a Kosher delicatessen in Manhattan. His son, Herman WEBERMAN , was a veteran of the Spanish-American war. His son, Ezra WEBERMAN , was an attorney with offices at 51 Chambers Street in Manhattan. Ezra WEBERMAN 's brother, Danny Webb, was an actor and hosted a television program for children sponsored by Dr. Posner's shoes. Ezra WEBERMAN married Sara Feinstein and I was born on May 26, 1945, I grew up in Brooklyn and attended Public School. In 1962 I entered Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. I became an honor student. In 1964 I was arrested for having sold five marijuana cigarettes to a professional police informant. I faced a 20 year minimum mandatory sentence on the sale of marijuana charge and another 10 year minimum mandatory sentence for possession of marijuana, after the police vacuumed my pockets and found traces of pot. I was allowed to return, on $25,000 bail, to Brooklyn. I graduated from the City College of New York in Manhattan with a B.A. in English.
In 1965 I worked in the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village where I met Jimmy Hendrixs. In 1967 my wife and I moved to 6 Bleecker Street in the Bowery area of Manhattan. I lived there for 23 years. In the late 1960's I became leader of the Yippies (Youth International Party) and organized Marijuana Smoke-Ins, anti-war demonstrations and riots on a leadership level. This researcher was part of several "affinity groups" formed for the purpose of "trashing" certain symbols of repression such as the Department of Justice building. The Yippies continue to organize "Smoke-Ins" throughout the country to protest the unjust marijuana laws. [Yippie c/o Dana Beal 9 Bleecker St. NYC 10012]
Rolling Stone Magazine published a Press release from the Dylan Archives that stated there were hidden pictures superimposed on the cover of Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding record album. Soon, every Bob Dylan fan was searching it for these photographs - that they had overlooked. I noticed that when I played certain unintelligible lines from Bob Dylan's record album backwards, they made sense. Rolling Stone also published this. Rock fans started playing albums backwards and the story was circulated that a Beatles album contained the line "Paul is dead, miss him, miss him," if you played it backwards. This researcher was banned from the pages of Rolling Stone after I ransacked their New York offices with a crew of Yippies. This researcher appeared on many national television interview shows, including Tom Snyder, Larry King and Martha Mitchell's talk show in D.C.
INVENTOR OF THE DYLAN DATA BASE
In the early 1970's this data base compiler invented the science of "Dylanology." Dylanology involved the digitization of Bob Dylan's poetry to facilitate its analysis. This researcher created a Dylan Data Base, known as the Bob Dylan Word Concordance. PC's or MAC's were not yet invented so my wife and I went to New York University where we typed all of Dylan's work on punch cards. This was transferred to a large magnetic tape and a friend wrote a program that printed out every word in Dylan's poetry along with a line of context, in alphabetical order. I started the Dylan Archives to preserve and disseminate (bootleg) the work of Bob Dylan. I tried to radicalize Dylan, who was a heroin addict. I spent many hours with Bob Dylan, but our relationship ended after "the Dylan Liberation Front" threw a 30th Birthday Party for him outside his home. Articles...Expand for more
about Dylanology appeared in Glamour, Newsweek and numerous other publications and this researcher was on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
This researcher is best known for having invented garbology, the science of spying on someone through their garbage. I am "that guy who went through Dylan's garbage." I did a cover story on garbology for Esquire magazine. I made appearances to promote the article. Variety claimed that one of my television appearances was so offensive the host had to black it out by going to a blank screen. This was untrue. None-the-less, my appearance on the Merv Griffen Show was canceled. Later I appeared on the television show Real People when I was detained for going through the garbage of former President RICHARD NIXON in front of his townhouse on the East Side of Manhattan.
In 1972 I became a Zippie (Yippies with zip) and led the anti-Nixon protests at the Republican Convention in Flamingo Park, Miami Beach, Florida. I was arrested there for Inciting to Riot. John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono financed my activities. I spent long periods of time with John and Yoko in their Bank Street apartment in Greenwich Village. Rarely did they have any clothes on. My other Zippie/Yippie associates included Tom Forcade, founder of High Times magazine, Irvin Dana Beal and American dissident Abbie Hoffman. The FBI investigated me on several occasions for Sedition and Insurrection and for crossing state lines with the intention of causing a riot.
My next book, My Life In Garbology, was published in 1979. That year I threw a tomato at former President RICHARD NIXON when he visited the Loeb Library in Manhattan. I hit a police officer and was charged with felonious assault. When the New York City Police Department found another tomato on my person I was charged with possession of a deadly weapon. The police kept me locked up until NIXON left town. I pleaded guilty to using loud and abusive language in public, and paid a $25 fine. The bailiff remarked: "You don't look like one of our usual customers." My pistol permit was revoked but I still had my two Ithaca shotguns, an UZI semi-automatic submachine gun and a trusty old M-16. (I have long since disposed of my arsenal).
In the early 1980's I worked with the Jewish Defense Organization (not to be confused with the Jewish Defense League) in running operations against Nazis. On Sundays I went to a rifle range in Huntington, Long Island, and trained Jews, young and old, how to shoot. Spotlight commented: "The leading promotor of the theory that HUNT was one of the 'tramps' is A.J. WEBERMAN who maintains very close ties to the Jewish Defense League. WEBERMAN has also been closely associated with Mordechai Levi, a known agent provocateur of the Israeli's Mossad's propaganada and intelligence arm, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Levi was also active in the Jewish Defense League (JDL), created by militant Rabbi Meyer Kahane. In Chapter 8 we saw that Kahane was a CIA asset and protégé of Irving Lovestone who handled CIA-liaison with the Meyer Lansky-linked French Corsican and Sicilian Mafias. Lovestone's operation was directed out of JAMES J. ANGLETON'S Israeli desk at the CIA. It may very well be that the 'HUNT as a tramp' story being touted by WEBERMAN was indeed a CIA-Mossad concoction to further muddy the waters. What is interesting is that in 1975 - precisely at the same time when WEBERMAN was publishing and promoting a book that named HUNT as one of the tramps - a strange letter appeared, anonymously, in the mailbox of another (and more reliable) assassination researcher, Penn Jones Jr...That the WEBERMAN story of 'HUNT as a tramp' and the 'Dear Mr. HUNT' letter appeared at the same time are particularly intriguing in light of another matter we are about to consider [the ANGLETON memo re: HUNT in Dallas]. Both the 'HUNT as a tramp story' and the 'Dear Mr. HUNT letter appear to be part and parcel of a CIA black propaganda operation run by none other than the Mossad's man at the CIA, JAMES ANGLETON." [M.C. Piper Final Judgement pages 198 to 199]I obtained the garbage of the PLO's Observer Delegation to the United Nations and turned it over to the Mossad. I spent much of the 1980's living in Tel Aviv, Israel. I returned to the United States in 1987. In 1993 this data base compiler served as a Frontline researcher for the PBS documentary Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? I worked with William Scott Malone, a reporter for Frontline.".
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