WARREN HINCKLE
TGTH - HST - WARREN HINCKLE - A page about Warren Hinckle on gonzo.org
Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star - There are two joys in life -- making things
and breaking things -- and pirate journalist
Warren Hinckle has excelled at both By Jack
Boulware SF Weekly, February 14 - 20, 1996
Muzzling Warren Hinckle - The day after the U.S. began bombing Iraq,
Examiner columnist Warren Hinckle wrote a scathing column critical of the war. The Examiner refused to run it and put Hinckle on an
unpaid leave. Why? By Jim Balderston, SF Bay Guardian, January 30, 1991
What Happened to the San Francisco Left? by Warren Hinckle San Francisco Independent 12/29/98
The Hinkle File @suck 2000/03/31
HINCKLE WARREN - Namebase search
... editor of the USF paper, the Daily Foghorn. "editor before me. E D S T E P H A N -- Brushes with Celebrity
In the early '60s he was hired as a reporter
by the Chronicle, working under the legendary Scott Newhall,
who stacked the paper with columnists, strange
journalistic hoaxes, and other techniques
worthy of P.T. Barnum
Warren Hinckle III invented the concept of
``radical slick'' when he took over Ramparts in 1964. Founded two years earlier in San
Francisco as a liberal Catholic quarterly,
Hinckle converted it into a monthly and introduced
contemporary graphics and design, high-profile
publicity efforts and provocative investigative
reporting. A Brief History of American Alternative Journalism
in the Twentieth Century By Randolph T. Holhut
All through that night and the next day,
Keating's passionate Catholic defense of
The Deputy blocked out most of the Hochhuth hate news
that had been inundating the New York media.
The Year They Tried To Block The Deputy from If You Have Lemon, Make Lemonade ©1974
Warren Hinckle [Hochhuth, Rolf , 1931–, German dramatist. His provocative
first drama, The Deputy (1963), accuses Pope Pius XII and the Roman
Catholic clergy of tolerating Nazi crimes
against the Jews. It received productions
worldwide and caused great controversy.]
March 5, 1967 - Warren Hinckle III, editor
of Ramparts Magazine, hosted a “rockdance-environment happening”
benefit in honor of the CIA (Citizens for
Interplanetary Activity) at California Hall.
Participants included the S.F. League for
Sexual Freedom, the Diggers and the San Francisco
Mime Troupe. [Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969]
As principal architect of the Port Huron
Statement in 1962, Tom Hayden had helped
launch Students for a Democratic Society
(sds), which soon became the largest student
organization of the New Left. When he called
for a demonstration at the 1968 Democratic
national convention to protest the Vietnam
War, everybody knew it meant a confrontation
with the Chicago police that could prove
bloody. Ramparts editor-in-chief Warren Hinckle decided to
participate by publishing a "wall paper,"
as Mao’s Red Guards had done during the cultural
revolution in China. [Scenes From a Radical Life by David Horowitz]
. . . Garrison began talking when I picked
up the mailroom extension: "This is
risky, but I have little choice. It is imperative
that I get this information to you now. Important
new evidence has surfaced. Those Texas oilmen
do not appear to be involved in President
Kennedy's murder in the way we first thought.
It was the Military-Industrial Complex that
put up the money for the assassination --
but as far as we can tell, the conspiracy
was limited to the aerospace wing. I've got
the names of three companies and their employees
who were involved in setting up the President's
murder. Do you have a pencil?" Hinckle's account of a November 5, 1968,
conversation:
co-editor of Scanlan's Monthly (1970-1971) ...
Hinckle also edited the more recent City of San Francisco, a weekly put out by Francis Ford Coppola.
Although criticially acclaimed, it was short
lived as well.
Hinckle returned to the Chronicle and began a column called "Hinckle's
View."
... in 1985, Hearst hired Hinckle as part
of a well-publicized "Next Generation"
campaign, designed to convince readers that
the Examiner had shed much of its traditional
conservative editorial policy.
In 1987, the Examiner marked its 100th Hearst anniversary. Will
Hearst assigned Hinckle to edit a special
centennial package composed from Examiner back issues
THE OFTEN STORMY five-year relationship between
the management of the San Francisco Examiner
and columnist Warren Hinckle has hit what
may be its final low point. The spark that
ignited the latest confrontation appears
to have been an antiwar column Hinckle submitted
Jan. 17, 1991. Examiner management not only
held the column, but suggested that Hinckle
take a three-month, unpaid leave. Muzzling Warren Hinckle - The day after the U.S. began bombing Iraq,
Examiner columnist Warren Hinckle wrote a
scathing column critical of the war. The
Examiner refused to run it and put Hinckle
on an unpaid leave. Why? By Jim Balderston
January 30, 1991, SF Bay Guardian
The censored column began this way:
At 6 p.m. Wednesday [Jan. 16], clouds of
white smoke hung over Fifth and Market in
front of the Emporium as the greatest antiwar
march in San Francisco was gathering steam.
The smoke was from a PG&E repair crew
fixing a broken pipe. One of the PG&E
men, an Irish guy, gave the demonstrators
the high sign as they marched by, 14 abreast,
on their way to City Hall.
"Tell them about the British,"
he said. "Tell them how they carved
up the Middle East in the first place and
created all this mess. Tell them about Maggie
Thatcher and Bush."
Books:
Hinckle has written or co-authored several books -
The 10-second jailbreak; the helicopter escape of Joel David Kaplan (1973);
If you have a lemon, make lemonade (1974, 1990);
The richest place on earth : the story of Virginia City, and the heyday of the Comstock lode (1978);
The fish is red : the story of the secret war against Castro (1981);
The Big Strike : A Pictorial History of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike (1984)
The George Bush Dilemma (1989);
The Agnos years, 1988-1991 (1991);
Deadly secrets : the CIA-Mafia war against
Castro and the assassination of J.F.K. (1992) and
Do No Harm (1996). [amazon search]
Argonaut : Crazies! by Warren Hinckle ... Contributors include
Studs Terkel, Hunter S. Thompson, David Mamet,
and Ishmael Reed with an invigorating menu
of fresh writing and 16 pages of full-color
artwork.
Publication Date: June 1994
Publisher: Argonaut Press
His work in The Argonaut has so far spawned six volumes. He is also the president of Argonaut Press,
and the editor and publisher of The Argonaut, which apparently is a historic San Fran magazine that started in 1882.
Obviously he is very close to San Francisco but also divides his time between there and New York. He is also the lead columnist
for The Independent and a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner.
Described as a "hellraiser", Hinckle has also won the Thomas Paine and H.L. Mencken awards.
San Francisco Independent
"Bombs don't come from the stork; they
come from the IRS, from personal income taxes."
--Hunter S. Thompson in San Francisco's War
News
What Happened to the San Francisco Left?
by Warren Hinckle, San Francisco Independent 12/29/98
The digging of Crissy Field has led to the
discovery (the most recent this summer) of
Indian remains in the area that not even
the zipped lips of the Park Service and the
Presidio Trust could keep from the Indians.
SACRILEGE IN THE PRESIDIO
By Warren Hinckle (August 25, 1998)
Given the public withdrawal of Deputy City Attorney KATHERINE FEINSTEIN from
the race for personal reasons, an window of opportunity now exists for Fazio
to run against Hallinan. Any references to the Toracca trial can easily be blunted
by drawing attention to Hallinan’s many gaffes and encumbrances. Natali is just
one of those encumbrances; another is NORMAN YOUNG, the Hallinan benefactor,
muffler shop owner, Chinatown-and-Police-Department-political-gossip-trader
and drinking buddy of WARREN HINCKLE and JACK DAVIS. [source]
A firm of distributors has already pulled out of handling the book. "I've
known nothing like it for 20 years," says Warren Hinckle, head of its own
small publisher Argonaut Press. A veteran of many censorship battles, Hinckle
is now planning to do up the stakes. In doing so, he intends to expose a seven
year campaign by government agencies against those who have challenged the official
version of Lockerbie. If he is successful the repercussions could be immense.
US Government Still on Ropes Over Lockerbie By John Ashton - Originally
Appeared in June 9, 1996 edition of The Mail on Sunday - London
"William W. Turner, former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigations,
and journalist Warren Hinckle, state that the United States used biological
warfare against Cuba during the Nixon administration. "The authors argue
that the CIA has committed the United States to a secret, undeclared and illegal
war against Cuba for more than twenty years. The so-called Cuban Project is
the largest and least known operated by the CIA outside the legal limits of
its statutes, they say. [People of Cuba
v US Govt]
Wright Patman created a one-day storm when he blurted out the names of several
CIA foundations in 1964; he was upset that the CIA had kept the IRS from pursuing
possible tax violations. But it took two more years before the CIA was even
considered an issue by our sleepy mainstream press. Left-wing muckrakers began
connecting the dots dropped by Patman. Ramparts magazine exposed the use of
Michigan State University by the CIA to train Vietnamese police, and a year
later scooped up another big smelly one -- CIA funding of the National Student
Association [Philanthropists
at War]
John LEO: I drifted around. I joined Sid Zion and Warren Hinckle in an effort
to start a radical magazine called Scanlon's Monthly, which didn't turn out
too well. Then I worked as a commissioner in the city government in the City
of New York as environmental commissioner. [Booknotes
Transcript]
Title: Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police
Air date: August 28, 1994
In The Fish Is Red, Warren Hinckle and William Turner reported that Howard
K. Davis contacted New York financier Theodore Racoosin, who was well connected
with the White House. A week later Rascoosin came to Miami and told Davis there
was a high level interest in bringing out the Russian defectors. A week later
Rascoosin called Davis and informed him that his contacts in Washington could
not locate any reports about Russian defectors in Cuba. Hinckle and Turner reported
that Howard K. Davis organized meetings to effectuate this operation in the
offices of Bill Boggs, the editor of the Miami News. [OSWALD
IN DALLAS: PART TWO]
DART for yellow (ribbon) journalism, to: ... to the San Francisco Examiner.
Among the journalistic casualties of the war in the gulf: * Patriot editor Joseph
Reedy, fired after running an antiwar editorial (January 24) headed HOW ABOUT
A LITTLE PEACE?; * Daily Press reporter Paul Payne, fired after a friend of
the paper's publisher complained about a scheduled piece (subsequently killed)
on the profitable boom in locally produced flags, ribbons, bumper stickers,
T-shirts, and other support-the-war paraphernalia; * Examiner columnist Warren
Hinckle, told to take a three-month unpaid furlough after he had submitted a
January 17 piece (which never ran) on the "folly of the path to war."
DARTS AND LAURELS
I first met Stephen Schwartz [44] at CITY where he was assisting Warren Hinckle
[45]. SARFATTI'S ILLUMINATI: IN THE THICK
OF IT! By Jack Sarfatti ... The Schwartz-Hinckle story cited is in Jack Sarfatti's
book "Destiny Matrix" available from http://www.1stbooks.com
Hearst Buys Chronicle, Fang gets Examiner +
$66,000,000
The Examiner trial was a lot of fun, for observers at least, but it was the
kind of fun that makes you feel queasy afterwards. Judge Walker's courtroom
provided a window on a sorry, inbred newspaper universe that appears to be powered
almost entirely by hate. The Chronicle owners hate the Hearst Corporation. Davis
and Hinckle hate Reilly and the Examiner. Reilly hates virtually everyone, but
the man he may hate most, or at least most memorably, is the Examiner's Bronstein,
who broke the consultant's ankle in an infamous Examiner boardroom scuffle in
1993. But Davis and Hinckle hate Bronstein too: Hinckle savages him weekly in
a viciously ad hominem Independent cartoon, "Mr. Sharon Stone," dedicated
to ridiculing the couple's relationship, their squabbles, even their quest to
conceive a child. They
trade horses, don't they? June 02, 2000 by Joan Walsh
The saga would make for a riveting miniseries, and the cast of characters practically
begs for a soap-opera treatment: Phil Bronstein, the swashbuckling executive
editor of the Examiner and husband of actress Sharon Stone; Warren Hinckle,
the legendarily hard-drinking, eyepatch-wearing rapscallion who writes a front-page
column for The Independent; Jack Davis, the ruthless San Francisco political
consultant who has described himself as "a warlord for the Fang family
interests"; Willie Brown, the nattily dressed and notoriously slick mayor
of San Francisco, who has transformed the city into his private political fiefdom;
Timothy White, the naëve editor and publisher of the Examiner; and the would-be
spoiler, Clinton Reilly, the failed mayoral candidate who threw the entire tawdry
drama into open court for the world to see. SF
Confidential, By John Cook, December 2000/January 2001 Brill's Content
Will the Internet Make
the New San Francisco Examiner?
An open letter to Ted Fang and Warren Hinckle.
By Ken Layne, OJR Columnist
60th B'day
Hinkles party? How are you going to get there…
the mother fuckin party’s at Treasure Island.
Own a car? Whatever. Who the fuck is Warren
Hinkle anyway? A geek in local politics?
... Warren Hinckles 60th B-day-by Seth Maxwell Malice, Flayor of San FranPsycho.
Ron Turner takes care of his friends. No
stranger to the macabre, the greying, bear-like
publisher is the proud owner of Last Gasp,
an imprint specializing in underground comics,
graphic novels, punk and other marginal literature.
Turner wanted his pal Warren Hinckle to have
the best possible 60th birthday party. Having
arranged the notorious entertainment for
Jack Davis, he hoped to top even that. PARTY ANIMALS
Big journalistic dispute: What really happened
at Warren Hinckle's 60th birthday party last
week, and who cares or can remember? The
Chronicle's Matier & Ross column reported
that Mayor Brown had a drink thrown on him
and a Monica Lewinsky look-alike did a cigar
act with Warren Hinckle in the Clinton role.
-[Rob Morse, Oct. 21, 1998 Examiner]
10-Oct-99
update: 20-Dec-00
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