Post by darkstar3 on Jan 27, 2011 2:35:30 GMT
HUTTOE CALLS FOR PROBE OF LEWD PERFORMANCE
March 5, 1969
(Miami Public Library Florida Collection)
Miami FBI document file no. 62-591-5
The president of the Crime Commission of Greater Miami today called for a grand jury investigation of last Saturday’s performance of The Doors and Jim Morrison before some 10,000 young people at Dinner Key Auditorium.
Arthur Huttoe is a former prosecutor himself, said Morrison should be prosecuted for the use of obscene language onstage as well as for lewd and lascivious conduct.
Huttoe raised a number of questions which he said should be of public concern. For one thing, he said, there should be a full scale investigation of the city’s lease arrangement with auditorium entrepreneur George MacLean.
He said he also would like to know if the scuffle between Morrison and Ken Collier, one of the promoters of the affair, was pre planned. If so, said Huttoe, it would constitute conspiracy to cause a riot.
Collier on several occasions has stated he was forced to throw Morrison off stage because the performer was getting out of hand and including the youthful audience.
The Crime Commission’s Huttoe said the conduct of City of Miami police hired as special guards for the performance was a most important concern. He questioned the hiring of such police for such functions and wondered if the city wouldn’t be liable in the event of riots and disorders which might result in death or injury.
Huttoe said he also wanted a probe of reports that there was wide spread smoking of marijuana inside a city facility.
“We are urging all interested parties – the police, prosecutors and the grand jury – to take appropriate and immediate action,” said Huttoe.
END.
March 5, 1969
(Miami Public Library Florida Collection)
Miami FBI document file no. 62-591-5
The president of the Crime Commission of Greater Miami today called for a grand jury investigation of last Saturday’s performance of The Doors and Jim Morrison before some 10,000 young people at Dinner Key Auditorium.
Arthur Huttoe is a former prosecutor himself, said Morrison should be prosecuted for the use of obscene language onstage as well as for lewd and lascivious conduct.
Huttoe raised a number of questions which he said should be of public concern. For one thing, he said, there should be a full scale investigation of the city’s lease arrangement with auditorium entrepreneur George MacLean.
He said he also would like to know if the scuffle between Morrison and Ken Collier, one of the promoters of the affair, was pre planned. If so, said Huttoe, it would constitute conspiracy to cause a riot.
Collier on several occasions has stated he was forced to throw Morrison off stage because the performer was getting out of hand and including the youthful audience.
The Crime Commission’s Huttoe said the conduct of City of Miami police hired as special guards for the performance was a most important concern. He questioned the hiring of such police for such functions and wondered if the city wouldn’t be liable in the event of riots and disorders which might result in death or injury.
Huttoe said he also wanted a probe of reports that there was wide spread smoking of marijuana inside a city facility.
“We are urging all interested parties – the police, prosecutors and the grand jury – to take appropriate and immediate action,” said Huttoe.
END.