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August 26, 2016

Editor, Publisher and Writer Warren Hinckle Dies
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And editor, publisher and writer Warren Hinckle has died. Hinckle was
the editor of the magazine Ramparts, which he helped turn into a leading
voice for the 1960s left. The magazine won a Polk Award for a 1966
article that revealed a Michigan State University group operating in
Vietnam was in fact a CIA front group. It also published Eldridge
Cleaver's prison letters and Che Guevara's diaries. Hinckle was also a
major figure in the emergence of "gonzo journalism." This is Hinckle
speaking about editing Hunter S. Thompson's famous article about his
trip to the Kentucky Derby.

Warren Hinckle: "It was just a mess. It didn't make much sense at all,
the article. So, I just kind of bundled it all up and took a walk up the
street around the corner to the Tosca. And, fortunately, it wasn't a
crowded night, so I sat in one of these back red booths and spent a
couple hours actually reading this thing and figuring the heads and the
tails. And it was episodic, to say the least. And to reassemble this, it
was like-oh, dear, it was sort of like trying to assemble a very big,
complex crossword puzzle without having the picture on the box."

Warren Hinckle died on Thursday at the age of 77 from complications of
pneumonia.


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