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  John Holmes/Wonderland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
John was described as very quiet and shy in his youth but had a very confrontational relationship with his step-father which led to an stint with the Army when John was just 16 - just to help keep peace in the family.
John was driving a forklift truck for a meat packing plant and, due to the extreme cold of the freezer, repeatedly suffered with a collapsed lung.
John was arrested for the Wonderland murders in December 4, 1981, went on trial in May 20, 1982 and was acquitted on June 16, 1982.
www.vkn.com /newsletters/july2003/holmes.html   (1875 words)

  
 The Beat Page - John Clellon Holmes
John Clellon Holmes is an essayist, poet, and novelist; and was a "sometime member" of the Beat Generation.
Holmes had met Jack Kerouac at a party, and the two promising young novelists struck up a friendship on the basis of their interest in writing.
In 1948, Holmes had pressed Jack Kerouac to describe the unique qualities of his generation, and Kerouac invented the term 'Beat Generation' on the spot.
www.rooknet.com /beatpage/writers/holmes.html   (596 words)

  
 JOHN HOLMES: POET AND FRIEND OF POETRY
In 1936 John Ludlow Holmes was born to John and Sarah Holmes.
Evan Kirk Holmes was born in 1950 and Margaret Nash Holmes in 1954.
Holmes was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was awarded an honorary degree by Tufts University.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/jtholmes.html   (1684 words)

  
 John Haynes Holmes
John Haynes Holmes (1879-1964), a Unitarian minister and social activist, was prominent the Unitarian movement throughout much of the first half of the 20th century, even though he withdrew from fellowship with the American Unitarian Association (AUA) in 1918.
Holmes was soon a leader among the younger ministers agitating for a socially conscious religion, as exemplified by the UFSJ.
Holmes was torn between the prospect of leading a church already firmly committed to pacifism, nonsectarianism and social justice, and loyalty to New York City and his dream of fashioning his present church into one like the Lincoln Center.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/johnhaynesholmes.html   (2325 words)

  
 John Holmes and Sarah Thomas
John Holmes, Messenger immigrated in 1623 to Plymouth, New Plymouth Colony.
John Holmes supposedly came to Plymouth on the "Ann" in 1623 as a political prisoner.
John Holmes for 3 pounds and other considerations to discharge Hopkins and the colony of responsibility for the support of Dorothy Temple and her child, and the said Dorothy was to serve the remainder of her time with Holmes.
home.comcast.net /~burrowses/bdb/bdb2624.html   (800 words)

  
 John Holmes
John Holmes (1904-1962), a poet and critic, was a teacher of literature and modern poetry at Tufts University for 28 years.
Holmes brought to Tufts some of the best of the contemporary poets, who talked and read their works both to his classes and to the entire student body.
Holmes was the Phi Beta Kappa poet at Harvard in 1956, an honor he had earlier received from Tufts, Brown University, and the College of William and Mary.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/johnholmes.html   (1700 words)

  
 John Holmes - - Town of Charlton, Saratoga County, NY
Holmes removed his family to the woods, where a shelter was made by hanging blankets over the trunk of a fallen tree, and in this novel bivouac the women and children spent one day and night, while the men remained to watch and to defend the buildings.
Ruth HOLMES was born on 2 Jan 1767 in Stoningham,,CT. She died on 9 Sep 1836.
Pruella HOLMES was born on 9 Oct 1769.
www.townofcharlton.org /HCC_fam_holmes.html   (502 words)

  
 Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Holmes, who rose to prominence in the 1970s as the best-endowed man ever to appear in sex films, died of AIDS in the mid-1980s, but he remains a legend of sorts.
Holmes' wife at the time of his death, Laurie, insists he was a loving husband; others who knew the couple, including Holmes' goddaughter, claim Holmes hated Laurie, and married her primarily to have a steady source of drug money.
Holmes' involvement in the gruesome Wonderland Avenue drug-murder case is exhaustively discussed, as are his drug intake and his insistence on continuing to work even though he knew he was sick with AIDS.
www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/Wadd.htm   (407 words)

  
 John Holmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
John Holmes was by far the most famous male pornstar.
John Holmes died at the early age of 43 but got to fuck more than 10,000 women.
Probably John Holmes did not have any children, because if he did his heirs would right now be claiming the royalty rights to his movies which amount to a considerable sum of money.
www.hcmale.com /John_Holmes/john_holmes.htm   (312 words)

  
 The world's top john holmes actor websites
John Curtis Estes (August 8, 1944–March 13, 1988), better known as John Holmes, was an adult film actor of the 1970s and 1980s.
Holmes was particularly active in the period before condoms were customarily used in adult film, and was a user of injectable drugs; he died in 1988 from complications due to AIDS.
The money Holmes was earning at the time was not enough to support his drug addiction, and he ventured into crime, running drugs for gangs, prostituting himself to both men and women, committing credit card fraud and petty theft.
dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/john_holmes__actor_   (696 words)

  
 John Holmes and Mercy Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
John Holmes, the son of Nathaniel Holmes and Mercy Faunce, was born on Monday, 17 April 1682 o.s.
Mercy Ford, the daughter of John Ford and his wife Hannah, was born on Friday, 14 October 1687 o.s.
John went on to marry Sarah Church in 1709, and Mercy Ford in 1711.
home.comcast.net /~burrowses/bdb/bdb656.html   (350 words)

  
 John Holmes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Holmes (1828–1879), a Canadian Liberal-Conservative MP representing Carleton
John Clellon Holmes, poet, novelist and essayist of the Beat Generation
John Holmes, poet whose work appears in the Faber Book of Modern American Verse
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Holmes   (107 words)

  
 John Haynes Holmes: The Community Church of New York
John Haynes Holmes -- the prophetic founder and minister of The Community Church of New York, located at the very heart of the inner city -- and I worked together as colleagues during the last twenty years of his life.
Holmes was outraged, left the Conference, and withdrew his fellowship as a Unitarian minister.
Holmes was among the founders of several of the most important organizations for social justice: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with W.E.B. Du Bois; The American Civil Liberties Union, with Roger Baldwin; The League for Industrial Democracy, with Harry Laidler; The Planned Parenthood Movement, with Margaret Sanger.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/holmes.html   (2404 words)

  
 CharlieManson.Com - The Wonderland Murders - John Holmes
Holmes, thanks to his 13-inch penis, had appeared in over 2,500 pornographic movies and was known as "Johnny Wadd." Holmes and Nash became friends somewhere along the line.
Holmes reportedly helped Nash's crew to enter the Wonderland house where four of the residents were slaughtered brutally on July 1, 1981.
John Holmes was born on August 8, 1944.
www.charliemanson.com /crime/wonderland.htm   (842 words)

  
 Orlando Florida Immigration Attorney | John Holmes | Florida U.S. Visa Immigration Law Lawyer
John V.A. Holmes specializes in U.S. visa and status related matters, to wit, immigration law.
John V.A. Holmes, who has been practicing law since 1965, entered the practice of immigration law in response to the growing worldwide demand for U.S. visa and status related legal services.
Holmes is a specialist in Immigration Law certified by the Florida Bar.
jvaholmes.lawoffice.com   (507 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes
Holmes was an ideal fit for both the industry and the audience, an unpretentious, seemingly nice guy who was cooperative on the set in a way crucial to the genre: he could come on cue.
Holmes became a cokehead, freebaser, and devotee of downers, sometimes ingesting a gut-wrenching 50 10 milligram Valiums at a time, which might have killed a horse, and certainly should have killed a man, even one hung like a horse.
According to one of the commentators, Holmes believed that it wasn’t necessary to tell people his status because everybody in porn would die — or deserved to for their unspecified betrayals of him, particularly their supposed refusal to see him when he was sick (he died in 1988).
www.brightlightsfilm.com /33/wadd.html   (1013 words)

  
 Locator*The Locator & John Holmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
John Holmes, owner of The Locator, bought the publication in 1957 and began traveling one week each month to sell Locator listings.
In 1960, Holmes was elected president of the Shopper Guides of Iowa and later elected president of the national association.
Holmes was stretching himself thin trying to run The Locator and all three of his shoppers at once.
partslocator.com /news/back.issues/article.details.asp?ArticleID=030212   (1192 words)

  
 XXXL: The John Holmes Story (2000) (V)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
XXXL: The John Holmes Story If you ask your parents who John Holmes is, I imagine they'll blush a little bit and they'll tell you, he was an actor from the 70's and 80's.
John Holmes was a male porn star with a 14 inch cock, that's who John Holmes is.
This movie is basically a documentary, with interviews from porn stars, ex wives, old girlfriends and friends of the late John Holmes who tell the story of his life and what it was like knowing him.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0399907   (362 words)

  
 ** ORGAZMIK: Bio of John Holmes **   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
John Holmes is the biggest male star to ever have worked in the adult industry.
John Holmes was born to a bible-toting baptist mother (Mary Estes) and a manic-depressive alcoholic stepfather (Edward Holmes).
John Holmes was arrested May 20th, 1982, and charged with the murder of the Wonderland Gang.
www.orgazmik.com /stars/bio/John%2520Holmes/1062.htm   (744 words)

  
 John Holmes
The most precise measurement ever given for the length of John Holmes' penis was 12.58 inches, cited in SCREW magazine.
John was tried in 1982 for his involvement in the Wonderland slayings.
Holmes was defended by attorney Earl Hanson, who later represented serial killer William G Bonin.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/entertainers/actors/john-holmes   (777 words)

  
 John Holmes returns, 1934   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
John Cousens, president of Tufts University, heard Holmes read the class poem at his high school graduation, and, impressed with the young poet, took Holmes under his wing.
Holmes achieved notable success as a poet and author during his lifetime.
Holmes wrote two books about the writing of poetry, The Poet's Work (1939) and Writing Poetry (1960), in addition to many essays and book reviews.
www.tufts.edu /home/timeline/html/1934-p-poet.html   (160 words)

  
 LitKicks: John Clellon Holmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Holmes was born on March 12, 1926 in Holyoke, Massachusetts and gravitated as a young man towards the literary social circles of New York City.
One day in 1948 Holmes asked Jack Kerouac to think of a way to describe the unique qualities of his generation, and Kerouac came up with the term 'Beat Generation' on the spot.
Holmes died in Middleton, Connecticut on March 2, 1988, leaving behind three novels and several books of poetry, essays and memoirs.
www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=JohnClellonHolmes   (529 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Porn King: The Autobiography of John C. Holmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
As told on the recent John Holmes addition of the E! True Hollywood Story, Holmes was prone to exaggeration and fabrication.
John C. Holmes has always been an inspiration for those of us who are "different," or "overly well endowed," if you know what I mean.
John was an interesting character for sure but hardly hemmed in by the truth.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1880047691?v=glance   (1034 words)

  
 WADD: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes
What is surprising is that Holmes' life is a far more wild and fascinating ride than any fiction could ever depict.
Always an enigmatic figure, Holmes was a na've boy who escaped a childhood of abuse by moving to L.A., married a nurse, and fell into the business quite by accident.
Conversations with some of the biggest names in the business are skillfully mixed with footage of Holmes in the role that made him famous.
www.cinequest.org /2000/guide/wadd.html   (194 words)

  
 LA Weekly: Features: In Too Deep
Holmes’ special quality, so to speak, was discovered, in the late 1960s, by a skin photographer in a Gardena poker club men’s room.
John was sounding like the old John, the goofy, childlike, paternal and protective John she had fallen in love with five years before, the John she had missed and had been hoping would return.
She took John’s handgun and the Chihuahua Thor, and moved in with the daughter of one of the hotel’s residents.
www.laweekly.com /ink/03/46/features-macdonnel.php   (5092 words)

  
 Wonderland (2003): Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa Kudrow - PopMatters Film Review
That is, the gruesome bludgeonings of a group of Holmes' acquaintances: drug dealer and Wonderland abode owner Ron Launius (fuzzy-faced Josh Lucas), his slow-minded buddy Billy Deverell (Tim Blake Nelson), Joy Miller (Janeane Garofalo), and bystander Barbara Richardson (Natasha Gregson Wagner).
In Cox's less rhapsodic recounting, Holmes (Val Kilmer) is a self-loving lout, coke addict, and liar, seemingly unable to comprehend (or much care about) the destruction he brings to anyone in his vicinity.
But John's participation, as snivelly snitch or sadistic killer or some entity in between, is never determined absolutely.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/w/wonderland.shtml   (1385 words)

  
 HOLMES, Professor John Richard
John was held in great affection by many people and will be deeply missed by them all.
Holmes first came to the San Francisco area to study at the University of California, Berkeley where he ultimately received a Ph.D. in physics in 1941.
Professor Holmes was a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society as well as a UNESCO and Fulbright Scholar.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/13/MNHOLMESPR60.DTL   (265 words)

  
 John Haynes Holmes
John Haynes Holmes was born in Philadelphia in 1879.
A socialist and pacifist, Holmes was appalled by the way people were being persecuted for their political and religious beliefs during the First World War.
Holmes was also involved in several other political campaigns.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAholmesJH.htm   (1098 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : John Holmes : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The name "John Holmes" was seldom emblazoned on the credits of mainstream Hollywood movies.
Holmes was the indefatigable star of many an X-rated film of the 1970s and 1980s.
John Holmes' colorful career was cut short when he died of AIDS at the age of 43.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/29181/bio.jhtml   (150 words)

  
 sito.offtopic/10240: The Real John Holmes - Wonderland Murders Exposed!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
John's autobiography was written verbatim from a number of tape recordings he made before his death.
In the controversial tapes, John opines on many subjects not the least of which is the notorious Wonderland Murders Case.
Laurie Holmes has kept the tapes under constant lock and key and has only allowed relevant authorities to peruse them both out of respect for members of John's immediate family and her own safety.
www.ibiblio.org /sito/discussion/static/sito.offtopic/20041022-10240.html   (351 words)

  
 Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes (1998)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Quotes: Bill Amerson: The closest John ever got to UCLA was stealing something out of a car in the parking lot.
Holmes rose from humble beginnings to super stardom in his role as the infamous Detective Johnny Wadd.
With John Holmes, there was a LOT that met the eye.
us.imdb.com /Title?0207195   (452 words)

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