One of Jim Morrison’s final companions (on this plane of existence, anyway) is among those criticizing the state of Florida for its recent pardon of the singer, calling it “politically motivated” and “the final act” of a “pointless passion play.”
THEY WON A GREAT DEAL OF POSTHUMOUS CELEBRITY FOR BEING OUTLAWS – AND OUTLAWS THEY SHOULD REMAIN, SAYS JENNY MCCARTNEY.
Another week, and talk of yet another pardon: this time for Billy the Kid, the 19th-century outlaw who was shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, last week received a posthumous pardon for his 1970 convictions for profanity and indecent exposure, which followed a raucous 1969 performance in Florida.
It will forever remain a pivotal moment in rock 'n' roll history—︎but the reality is, it might not have happened.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s Clemency Board has posthumously pardoned singer Jim Morrison of The Doors for his 40-year-old conviction on indecent exposure and profanity charges. Outgoing Gov. Charlie Crist requested the pardon Thursday. The Clemency Board unanimously granted it.
Crist expressed doubts that Morrison actually exposed himself during a rowdy March 1, 1969, concert in Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium.
(CNN) —︎ The Florida Board of Executive Clemency on Thursday voted unanimously to posthumously pardon Jim Morrison, the charismatic lead singer for The Doors, four decades after Morrison was convicted of indecent exposure and open profanity.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Forty years after Jim Morrison was convicted of exposing himself at a wild Miami concert, this is the end: Florida’s Clemency Board, egged on by departing Gov. Charlie Crist, pardoned The Doors’ long-dead singer Thursday.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Gov. Charlie Crist now has enough votes to get the state’s Executive Clemency Board to pardon Doors singer Jim Morrison for a 1969 indecent exposure conviction.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It's a strange sheaf of documents for Florida's governor to have. The thick notebook describes how Jim Morrison discussed sex with a lamb he held on stage, ordered fans to "love your neighbor 'til it hurts" and later, at trial, defended his boozy singing to a prosecutor.
UP FOR A POSTHUMOUS PARDON NEXT WEEK IN FLORIDA FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE CHARGES FROM 1969, THE DRUMMER TELLS THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, “IF JIM HAD REVEALED THE GOLDEN SHAFT, I WOULD HAVE KNOWN.”
