Original shock jock Joe Pyne, who interviewed satanists and pimps and, yes, even lawyers, had a testy exchange with Merry Prankster and founding Yippie Paul Krassner in 1967. The guest’s running buddy Jerry Rubin once stormed off the same show.
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F. Lee Bailey, one of the first celebrity lawyers of the TV era, who was involved in the Sam Sheppard, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson trials, among others, talks to questionable interlocutor Joe Pyne, in 1966.
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I previously posted some clips of irascible 1960s talk show host Joe Pyne. Here are three more, each from 1966, just four years before the chain-smoking shock jock died from cancer.
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Yippie leader Jerry Rubin storms off:
Georgia Governor Lester Maddox storms off:
Future Nixon enemy, journalist Jack Anderson, stays put:
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Proto-shock jock Joe Pyne had a 1960s TV talk show that exploited vital issues with zestful tastelessness. Some of his most notorious interviews follow.
Satanist Anton LaVey.
Transsexual Christine Jorgensen.
Pimp Iceberg Slim, author of Trick Baby.
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