Right. Casey was found not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated . However, in her confessional, Kathy brushed off Lisa's account of that night and apologized if she hurt her. Mini Bio (1) The oldest of four children, beautiful, dark-featured Italian Cathryn Marie Casamo was born in New Jersey on December 22, 1938, to Sicilian union organizer Bill Casamo and his wife, Victoria. Hospitals and psychiatrists across the country, carefully selected by the CIA, conducted these government-sanctioned and financed experiments on patients. Katrina was a very healthy woman and kind of an outlawin her heart she always felt for the underdogshe knew many great New York jazz musiciansTony Fruchela was one of the quintessential " lyrical losers"even more than Chet Baker and Cathy was friends with him and told me many stories. No blood. Born in New Jersey, USA on 22 Dec 1938 to William Ernst Caccamo. McMurtry lived in a safe-zone in the middle of Houstons suburbs. Today. I came of age in the 60s in San Francisco, and Cathy and little Katy let me share a part of it with them and showed me worlds I could never see without them. 3 hours and 2 minutes later I called the police station back. How is she? Cathy a drama student from Northwestern University and ingnue was convinced to go on the trip and star with Neal Cassady in the movie they were making. I was led to the office. "What a shot! There was the race riot they narrowly avoided sparking after accidentally descending on a segregated beach in New Orleans, too high to connect the strange looks they were getting with the fact that they . ", "With Neal Cassady at the wheel, they left La Honda in June 1964 and began their now legendary journey across the country, smoking marijuana, and dropping acid along the way. He lived and in a house with a solid foundation that didnt go anywhere. I was getting close to The Time Of The Totally Stupid Move. However, when she made the request, a . She soon had a daughter, Caitlyn. Alice in Wonderland is real or Im crazy or one of the pranksters slipped me some LSD. After running out of gas and pawning a stereo, they finally arrived with no money to what Jim describes as an incredibly friendly scene. Cathy Casamo, friend of Mike Hagen, joined at the last minute, hoping to star in the movie they were supposedly making, but she was left behind in Houston. My thoughts were simple and basic: this is stupid. ", with the gracious permission of Larry McMurtry, CLICK HERE->CONTINUED ON PAGE 2<-CLICK HERE, This story was cobbled together by Stephen Ehret, 1998 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2001, 1996 by the Cosmic Baseball Association, Deirdre English: NY Times December 9, 1990, John Riley: People Magazine March 22, 1976, Larry Hankin, Ron Bevirt, George Walker, Mike Hagen and Ken Babbs, There is a lot of misinformation out there these days, and it's abetted by the ease of dissemination on the Web. Stephen, Hi Stephen, There were rumors that Kathy Hilton, who has been a "friend" of the ladies since Season 11, had a breakdown during the vacation, and that she was subsequently feuding with Lisa Rinna, and with her own sister, Kyle Richards. I didnt see Cathy again until many years later when I ran into her in New York City with her then musician boyfriend, and then about 2 years after that, I ran into her back in North Beach in San Francisco. "Ma`am, would you please let go? Theyve taken enough. There was talk of a missing persons bulletin. He had Authority in every pocket. But I do have the authority and I will use it. I figured a houseboat is familiar for Cathy so thats a cool thing. I said Id be right there. Watch. She said she would. ", "The day they were ready to go, Ken Kesey recruited Cassady from a bookstore where he was working, Babbs recalls. You Damn Yankees see that? Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called Furthur, organizing parties, and giving . And shes a mother. Casamo's antics led to her being briefly institutionalized, . The boyfriend was screamed at and driven off. (The blanket she had been wearing around her shoulders was left behind in the bus.). McMurphy, a malingerer from a penal work farm, tries to rekindle a spark of life among his fellow patients, and is thwarted at each step by the cold, calculating Nurse Ratched, who ultimately curtails McMurphy's free wheeling ways by subjecting him to a lobotomy. A K A C A T H R Y N C A S A M O "The Beauty Witch" "Stark Naked" (December 22, 1938 - December 12, 1992) photo by Jeffrey Blankfort 2009. Whaaaaat? calls the 'nervous hospital'. It didn't help that all our first names were Larry, but in time, we got her out. Helpful. She graduated from Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey, and went on to major in Drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she counted Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss and Karen Black as classmates. I was not really that stable and Katrina, as she called herself at that time, was also involved in legal hassleswe shared the same probation officer and he was kind of a stalkerhe probably had the serious hots for herwho wouldn't!anyway he put pressure on her to not have me around, but that is not really what happenedKatrina had to go to the honor farm out in Novato for some little thingmaybe shopliftingI'm not sure whatanyway she met a guitar player there and that was also fine because I was returning to the NW, where I was from. Kathy Casano is the common misspelling of Cathy Casamo So if you are looking for her go to. I called and you said you had her and I could pick her up if I came here and I said Id be there in 20 minutes and you said okay. She wanted to see Katy. Someones missing, someone you really care about, and nobody will tell you anything. Neal Cassady * Speed Limit Cathy didnt come home that night. His goal was to break through conformist thought and ultimately forge a reconfiguration of American society. I clung to Larry McMurtrys every word. I resumed taking Caitlin with me pretty much everywhere, mainly because I liked her company and Caitlin seemed up for it. She didnt have any ID. She was brought in yesterday about 3 am. Its a Living Organism Thing: I can, therefore I will. Casamo & Associates is committed to providing the best court reporting services, video depositions, videoconferencing technology, and litigation support the industry has to offer. Whaaaaat? "With Neal Cassady at the wheel, they left La Honda in June 1964 and began their now legendary journey across the country, smoking marijuana, and dropping acid along the way. It was the same on the flight back. Katy was cool. Is she okay? Well done Casamo. Your mom was amazing and unfortunately I was still a long way off from pulling it together. They were young, they were beautiful, they were fresh, and they were friendly. Why they had to keep her so long? "Fresh from the stunning success of 'Cuckoos Nest', Kesey bought the bus for $1,250 from Andre Hobson in Atherton, Calif., a sales engineer who had outfitted it with bunks, a bathroom and a kitchen to take his 11 kids on vacation Once you go outside his green zone, you were in The South and we were hippies. Also on the return journey, Cathy Casamo an actress who had joined the Pranksters shortly before their trip suffered a psychotic episode as a result of her LSD use. She wanted to talk to me about her mom and about Cathy's disappearance in Houston for 3 days. The top of the bus was made into a musical stage and when it detoured through some cities, the Pranksters blasted a combination of crude homemade music and running commentary to all the astonished onlookers." Easy Riders However, in summer 1960, she dropped out a few math credits short of a degree and moved to California. You understand me? A story about the lazy, spoiled, rich Darwin and the poor hardworking Wallace, and evil Darwin's use of wealth and class to suppress the work of poor, uneducated Wallace. And off they went. Details explored ahead of NBC Dateline episode. And, as in all cultures throughout time: too much fun is a bust-able offense and we must have been having fun-right-up-to-the-edge because the police were always harassing our company or our theater or our director (and the whole city of San Francisco in general), because of our anti-war, anti-Nixon material and pro-pot references and use. They wouldnt tell me anything else over the phone. On June 17, 1964, Casamo left her daughter with Hankin and traveled across the country with Hagen, Kesey, driver and doomed literary figure Neal Cassady, and several others in Further, Kesey's recently purchased converted school bus, which had bunks and a bathroom, and sported a colorful, psychedelic paint job. On the other hand, from what I was experiencing in S.F. What! Novelist, writer of Horseman, Pass By (made into the movie Hud), Larry was a classmate of Kesey's at Stanford's graduate writing program four years earlier. Katrina and I had great times in that housethe sun came in and it was a beautiful spacewe ate such healthy meals and every day she would walk down the hill into townand weigh herselfha! Shes here. Biography. Anyway, I was down to SF again, maybe 8 years ago, when Boogie, a guy named Jan Davis, wanted me to perform for an event after his wife died of brain cancerI found out that The cartoon, now . The bus pulled out of the driveway with Ray Charles singing 'Hit the Road Jack,' and ran out of gas. Why? In the only first hand accounts of the bus story (Larry Hankin's tale of Cathy's disappearance, the flashbacks of Ken "Intrepid Traveler" Babbs in On The Bus, and a short piece by Larry McMurtry in Spit In The Ocean #7) nowhere is there any mention of Cathy going crazy. And they did. I'm still a musician and I am friends with Michael Aragon who leads a band and plays drums at the No-Nameor used to last I checked. I told Cathy shell be out in less than an hour, and I was taken back to the lobby. Larry Hankin, Ron Bevirt, George Walker, Mike Hagen and Ken Babbs You'll have to see for yourself." he says, dropping the curtain. George "Hardly Visible" Walker told me,"I never thought she was mad". In regard to Cathy Casamo, aka "Stark Naked", most of the confusion began, I believe, with Tom Wolfe's popular second-hand version of the bus story in, the flashbacks of Ken "Intrepid Traveler" Babbs in. AUGUST 15 London - The Academy, Brixton. I called the police. Kesey called off his band of Merry Pranksters and asked Sandy, the soundman, to drive me and just audio tape it, and nobody else goes. She was dressed in the clothes we had brought her, her hair was combed, no shoes. She invited them up to her apartment and quickly became caught up in their circle. "In 1959, Ken Kesey, a graduate student in creative writing at Stanford University, volunteered to take part in a government drug research program at Menlo Park Veterans Hospital that tested a variety of psychoactive drugs such as LSD, which was legal at the time, psilocybin, mescaline, and amphetamine IT-290." Saw Gary Richrath at a "meet n greet" at a guitar shop in Dallas in the early 90s. 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