the abbreviated reign of “neon” leon spinks

Gore, Jerome S., 168
Gower, Stephen M., 46
Grady, Sandy, 203
Grant, David, 81
Grant, Ulysses S., 66
Great Train Robbery, The (fi lm),
20–21
Great Wall of China (movie), 100–101
Hales v. Ojai Valley Inn and Country
Club, 168
Half-Baked Fashion Fiasco, 113
Hallucinogenic Hypno-Vision, 105
Harkin, Tom, 123
Harrington, David, 202
Haskell, John, 22
Henderson, David, 136
Hendrix, Jimi, 126–36
Hobbs, Richard, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57,
58–59
Hoffman, Abbie, 154
Hollander, Anne, 164–65
Holmes, Larry, 180
Holton, Harriet A., 6, 8
Hruby, Patrick, 141
Hughes, Howard, 72–83
Hughes H-4 Hercules seaplane, 73–82
Humes, Edward, 33
Hung, William, 63–64
Hyatt, Michael S., 201–2
Hyman, Ray, 121–22
Igiel, Bob, 208
Innaurato, Albert, 69
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 199
Iraq war, 117
Ishizuka, Mitsuru, 194
INDEX 282
Jacobs, Timothy, 223
James, Frank, 221
Janeway, Eliot, 76
Jeffery, Michael, 131–32, 134
Jenkins, Florence Foster, 65–71
Jenner, Bruce, 233
John Hancock Tower (Boston), 151–60
Johnson, Craig, 166–67
Jones, David, 127–37
Jonnes, Jill, 16–17
Jumbo (elephant), 24–25
Kaiser, Henry J., 74–83
Kam-Hung, Ip, 103
Kemmler, William, 19–20
Kennedy, John F., 60, 206, 231
Kern, Louis J., 6–7, 8–9, 11–12
Kettering, Charles, 28, 29–30, 36
Khrushchev, Nikita, 117
Kilroy, Gene, 177
Kimberly-Clark, 108–9
Kim Jong Il, 161, 171
Kimmel, Jimmy, 213
Kinbacher, Kurt E., 42
Kirshner, Don, 129, 130
Kitman, Jamie, 29, 147
Knoxville, Johnny, 182–83
Korbeck, Sharon, 231
Koskinen, John, 204
K-200, 108–9
kudzu, 39–49
Kulagina, Nina, 115–16, 119
Lang, Fritz, 105
LaPatner, Barry, 158–59
Lapchick, Richard, 149
Laube, Hans, 95, 97–104