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viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-msage-circle"><path d="m3 21 1.9-5.7a8.5 8.5 0 1 1 3.8 3.8z"></path></svg></g></svg></a></div><div class="pencraft ontend-pencraft-Box-module__ret--VfQY8 ontend-pencraft-Box-module__display-flex--ZqeZt ontend-pencraft-Box-module__flex-gap-8--HFpIK"><a role="button" href="javascript:void(0)" class="post-ufi-button style-button no-in has-label wh-borr"><div class="label">Share</div></a></div></div></div></div><div class="visibily-check"></div><div class class><div class="available-ntent"><div dir="to" class="body markup"><p>Lucien Carr was born to a good life. His fay was wealthy. He was handsome and charismatic.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" Carr a su and tie.","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":te,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="Lucien Carr a su and tie." tle="Lucien Carr a su and tie." srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" fetchprry="high" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Lucien Carr</p><p>Though he grew up durg the Great Deprsn St. Louis, MO, a cy roilg wh unemployment and civil unrt, Carr’s fay was sulated.</p><p>They lived for a time near other moneyed fai the cy's Central Wt End neighborhood. Then the Carrs and other wealthy folks moved wt to St. Louis County.</p><p>And Lucien Carr received the opportuni expected for children of privilege, even 1930s Ameri. The opportuni clud extracurricular activi, one of which was the Boy Suts of Ameri.</p><p><strong>One of the lears for Carr's troop was a man named David Kammerer.</strong></p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" Kammerer","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="David Kammerer" tle="David Kammerer" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>David Kammerer</p><p>Kammerer, like Carr, was a St. Louis native om a well-to-do fay. He was a graduate of Washgton Universy where, after graduatn, he worked as an English stctor.</p><p>And Kammerer worked part-time as a unselor to the Sut troop that 12-year-old Lucien Carr joed.</p><p><strong>We don’t know how, when, or the exact nature of , but a relatnship veloped between Kammerer and Carr. </strong><span>It was a relatnship that would lead to a fatal ncln.</span></p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Lucien Carr and David Kammerer<div id="§lucien-rr-and-david-kammerer" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>In the summer of 1939, Lucien Carr’s mother, Marn, permted him to travel to Mexi wh 28-year-old David Kammerer. Carr was 14.</p><p>The duo vised Kammerer’s uncle Mexi Cy. They ro bicycl, attend a bullfight, and went horseback ridg.</p><p>And the relatnship between Kammerer and Carr grew. It was a relatnship that seemed to be supported by Marn, at least at first.</p><p>After all, Carr’s father, Rsell, abandoned the fay when Lucien was a toddler. So Marn may have seen David Kammerer a father figure for her youngt son.</p><p><span>But 1940, the year after Carr's and Kammerer's Mexi trip, Marn disvered letters Kammerer had wrten her son. </span><strong>Some claim that the letters ed Marn to want to separate her son om Kammerer.</strong></p><p>Perhaps that's why she enrolled Lucien boardg school Chigo. And, when that didn't work out, she sent him to Phillips Amy Andover, Mass.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt tle srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Phillips Amy Andover, Mass.</p><p>But Kammerer was still the picture. When Carr board a tra St. Louis January 1940 to head to Andover, was Marn and Kammerer who saw him off.</p><p>Amilly, Lucien Carr did fe at Andover, but he stggled to f . The followg year he returned to St. Louis, attendg a prep school there for his senr year of high school.</p><p>After graduatg, Carr went the summer of 1942 to Bowdo College Mae.</p><p>But wh weeks of arrivg, Carr was twice brought before a disciplary mtee. After his send appearance before the mtee, Carr voluntarily left the school.</p><p><strong>And who was that showed up a r to drive Carr back to St. Louis? David Kammerer.</strong></p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Lucien Carr Bounc Around<div id="§lucien-rr-bounc-around" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>Lucien Carr's next stop, 1943, was the Universy of Chigo.</p><p>Someone else moved to Chigo at the same time as Carr: David Kammerer.</p><p>Carr's time Chigo, however, didn't last long. One day, he turned on a gas oven and placed his head si. He lived and sisted that the stunt was an art project, not a suici attempt.</p><p>Still, Carr was sent to a psychiatric hospal. He spent a month there.</p><p><strong>When Carr got out, his mother, Marn, enrolled him at Columbia Universy New York Cy.</strong><span> She had moved om St. Louis to New York, and she wanted to keep her troubled son close to her.</span></p><p>And gus who else reloted to New York? Yep, David Kammerer.</p><p>This move, though, would be David Kammerer's last.</p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">A Fortuo Meetg<div id="§a-fortuo-meetg" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>It didn't take Lucien Carr long to ga a reputatn at Columbia Universy. His language was vulgar and his antics wild and outrageo.</p><p>But Carr was also talented. He did well a class tght by Lnel Trillg and imprsed his peers wh his telligence.</p><p>One of Carr's profsors lled him "fely a superr stunt."</p><p>And Carr ma iends.</p><p>One day, Carr was his dorm room listeng to a rerd of a Johann Brahms posn when there was a knock on his door. Openg , that's how Carr met another Columbia stunt named Allen Gsberg.</p><p><strong>Gsberg and Carr beme iends.</strong></p><p>Carr troduced Gsberg to a guy he knew om his St. Louis days: William S. Burroughs. And was around this time that Carr met a Columbia Universy dropout named Jack Kerouac.</p><p><strong>The four young men, Carr, Gsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac, formed a close group.</strong><span> Someone, though, was on the outsi lookg .</span></p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Formg the Beats<div id="§formg-the-beats" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>Lucien Carr and William S. Burroughs both knew David Kammerer om St. Louis.</p><p>They troduced Kammerer to their iends Jack Kerouac and Allen Gsberg.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" Kerouac standg next to Lucien Carr.","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="Jack Kerouac standg next to Lucien Carr." tle="Jack Kerouac standg next to Lucien Carr." srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Jack Kerouac (left) and Lucien Carr</p><p><span>But Kammerer didn't f . He had ltle money and often asked Carr for fancial support. </span><strong>And his fatuatn wh Carr grew. This ma Kerouac, Gsberg, and Burroughs unfortable</strong><span>.</span></p><p>For one thg, was 26 years before the Stonewall Rts started the gay rights movement Ameri. Also, Carr had a girliend.</p><p><strong>And, by all acunts, Kammerer was engagg behavr that today we ll stalkg.</strong><span> For example, Kammerer was ught after sneakg to Carr's room to watch him sleep.</span></p><p>While Kammerer stayed on the ge of the foursome, Carr, Burroughs, Gsberg, and Kerouac spent a lot of time together.</p><p>Carr and Gsberg beme roommat. And the group drank together at the Wt End, a popular bar near Columbia Universy's mp.</p><p>Ined, the Wt End Bar was the settg for what would be David Kammerer's fal act.</p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Missg the Boat<div id="§missg-the-boat" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>Throughout the summer of 1944, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr me up wh a plan: They would jo a U.S. Merchant Mare ship bound for France.</p><p>The ia was to walk across France wh Kerouac pretendg to be French and Carr pretendg to be his af-mute iend.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" storeont where the Wt End Bar ed to operate Manhattan's Upper Wt Si.","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="The storeont where the Wt End Bar ed to operate Manhattan's Upper Wt Si." tle="The storeont where the Wt End Bar ed to operate Manhattan's Upper Wt Si." srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>This is where the Wt End Bar operated Manhattan's Upper Wt Si om 1911-2014.</p><p><strong>But on the night of Aug. 13, Carr and Kerouac got dnk and missed their boat.</strong><span> Instead of sailg to France, they head to the Wt End Bar to ntue drkg.</span></p><p>Around midnight, Kerouac left to go home. Between the bar and his apartment, Kerouac bumped to David Kammerer.</p><p>Kammerer asked about Carr, and Kerouac said he was still at the Wt End.</p><p><strong>Kammerer found Carr at the Wt End, and the two drank there until 2 a.m.</strong></p><p>The men then walked to nearby Riversi Park. They laid on a grassy embankment at the end of Wt 115th Street.</p><p>And that's when thgs took a adly turn.</p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Lucien Carr Comms Murr<div id="§lucien-rr-ms-murr" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>Lucien Carr and David Kamerer were lyg on the grass Manhattan's Riversi Park. It was around 3 a.m. on Aug. 14, 1944.</p><p>Both men had been drkg. Then, acrdg to Carr, Kammerer ma a sexual advance. Carr said he rejected Kammerer and the two started fightg.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" om Bidwell Hollow: \"Next, Carr turned to his iends for help.\"","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="Quote om Bidwell Hollow: "Next, Carr turned to his iends for help."" tle="Quote om Bidwell Hollow: "Next, Carr turned to his iends for help."" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Carr, who weight about 40 pounds ls than Kammerer, was losg the stggle. That's when he pulled a Boy Suts of Ameri knife he'd had sce he was a kid.</p><p><strong>Carr stabbed Kammerer twice the cht.</strong></p><p>Then Carr rolled Kammerer's body down the hill to the banks of the Hudson River. He ed the lac of Kammerer's sho to bd the ad man's hands and feet.</p><p>He ed Kammerer's belt to fasten the victim's arms to the body. And, workg quickly, Carr shoved small rocks to Kammerer's pant pockets and clothg.</p><p>Carr then phed Kammerer's body to the Hudson River.</p><p>Next, Carr turned to his iends for help.</p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Hi the Evince<div id="§hi-the-evince" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>After killg David Kammerer, Lucien Carr htled to Jack Kerouac's apartment.</p><p>Kerouac and Carr then went to Morngsi Park. There Carr buried Kammerer's eyeglass a shallow hand-dug hole. And Carr dropped his knife, the murr weapon, a subway grate.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" edge of Columbia Universy's mp and Morngsi Park New York Cy.","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="The edge of Columbia Universy's mp and Morngsi Park New York Cy." tle="The edge of Columbia Universy's mp and Morngsi Park New York Cy." srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Where Columbia Universy's mp and Morngsi Park meet.</p><p>Next, Carr and Kerouac found William S. Burroughs. Burroughs enuraged Carr to turn himself by claimg he acted self fense.</p><p><strong>Durg the day on Aug. 14, Lucien Carr and his attorney arrived at the New York County District Attorney's office. Carr then nfsed to killg David Kammerer.</strong></p><p>But took two days before officials charged Carr for murr.</p><p>At first, they didn't know if Carr was tellg the tth about killg Kammerer. The victim's body hadn't been revered. And there was ltle addnal evince that Carr had killed anyone.</p><p>But on Aug. 16, a body was pulled out of the Hudson River.</p><p>Carr intified as beg Kammerer's. And Carr showed thori where he buried Kammerer's glass Morngsi Park.</p><p>Carr was then arrted and charged wh send-gree murr.</p><p>Also arrted as a material wns was Jack Kerouac. And, on Aug. 24, William S. Burroughs was taken to ctody as well for beg a material wns.</p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Chance for Reform<div id="§chance-for-reform" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>Burroughs and Kerouac were released on bail. Carr was not.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" Carr at his arraignment.","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="Lucien Carr at his arraignment." tle="Lucien Carr at his arraignment." srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Lucien Carr at his arraignment. Photo cred: The New York Tim</p><p><span>Instead, Carr went to Bellevue Hospal for a psychiatric evaluatn. He clutched a py of W. B. Yeats's </span><em>A Visn</em><span> durg his arraignment.</span></p><p><strong>And then, on Oct. 6, 1944, Carr plead guilty to first-gree manslghter.</strong></p><p>Authori never revered the murr weapon. Bee of this, the assistant district attorney didn't thk he uld nvict Carr of send-gree murr.</p><p><span>The judge the se sentenced Carr to Elmira Reformatory stead of Sg Sg prison. </span><strong>The judge explaed that he felt Carr uld bee a productive member of society, but that would be ls likely if he were around the harned crimals of Sg Sg.</strong></p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href="//;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="//;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 424w, //;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 848w, //;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 1272w, //;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src="//;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US" data-attrs="{"src":"//;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":null,"width":null,"rizeWidth":null,"byt":null,"alt":"","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt tle srcset="//;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 424w, //;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 848w, //;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 1272w, //;ASIN=0802126499&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersn=20070822&WS=1&tag=bidwellhollow-20&language=en_US 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Paid lk</p><p>In readg news verage om the time of the murr, 's easy to see that Kammerer's reputatn as a homosexual ma him a ls sympathetic victim. And Carr's claim that Kammerer ma a sexual advance toward him may have ntributed to the light sentence that Carr received.</p><p>Viewed our current time, 's difficult to not see Carr's explanatn for the murr as gay "panic" fense.</p><p>Still, there's evince that Kammerer stalked Carr. The olr man may even have had a predatory relatnship wh Carr, stemmg om when Carr was a teenager.</p><p>We'll probably never know exactly what happened between Kammerer and Carr. But we do know where the Beats went after Kammerer's ath.</p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">The Beats Move On<div id="§the-beats-move-on" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>After servg 18 months a reformatory for killg David Kammerer, Lucien Carr beme a py boy for Uned Prs news wire service.</p><p><strong>Carr worked there until retirg 1993, eventually risg to lead the service's news sk.</strong><span> He avoid the spotlight for the rt of his life.</span></p><p>And Carr kept touch wh his iends, a group who me to be known as the Beats.</p><p>When he first published his popular poem "Howl," Gsberg dited to Carr. He removed the ditn future publishgs, though, at Carr's requt.</p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" ditn page for \"Howl\" by Allen Gsberg, showg a ditn to Lucien Carr.","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="The ditn page for "Howl" by Allen Gsberg, showg a ditn to Lucien Carr." tle="The ditn page for "Howl" by Allen Gsberg, showg a ditn to Lucien Carr." srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Early edn of "Howl" by Allen Gsberg, showg the ditn to Lucien Carr.</p><p><span>Jack Kerouac beme a famo thor, particularly for his book, </span><em>On the Road</em><span>.</span></p><p><span>William S. Burroughs produced a large body of lerary work. His bt-known novel is </span><em>Naked Lunch</em><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Burroughs and Kerouac -wrote a mancript based on their experience wh Carr's killg of David Kammerer.</strong><span> They never published the story, perhaps to rpect Carr's wish.</span></p><p><span>That changed 2008 when </span><em>And the Hippos Were Boiled Their Tanks</em><span> was published.</span></p><p>And, 2013, David Kammerer's killg received renewed attentn wh the release of the film, "Kill Your Darlgs." Starrg Michael C. Hall and Daniel Radcliffe, the movie prents a dramatized versn of David Kammerer's killg.</p><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Lucien Carr, a Lerary Ln<div id="§lucien-rr-a-lerary-ln" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><p>It's impossible to measure the impact Lucien Carr had on the Beats.</p><p><strong>But all available evince mak the se that whout Carr, we would never have had the Beats.</strong></p><a class="image-lk image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" data-attrs="{"src":" Gsberg","tle":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":te,"topImage":false,"ternalRedirect":null}" class="sizg-normal" alt="Allen Gsberg" tle="Allen Gsberg" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Allen Gsberg</p><p>It was Carr who troduced Allen Gsberg to the works of Arthur Rimbd, whose wrg greatly fluenced Gsberg. It's through Carr that Gsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs met Neal Cassady, who beme a proment member of the Beats.</p><p><span>And Carr supplied Kerouac wh the scroll of paper on which the latter wrote the first draft of </span><em>On the Road</em><span>. Carr was the mancript's first rear, too.</span></p><p>Gsberg said about Carr, "Lou was the glue."</p><p><strong>And The New York Tim obuary for Carr lled him "a lerary ln who never roared."</strong></p><div><hr /></div><p><em>Disclosure: Bidwell Hollow is an Amazon affiliate, which means Bidwell Hollow earns a small missn anytime you buy somethg on after clickg a paid lk. The ty amount of money Bidwell Hollow receiv helps make this webse possible. Thank you!</em></p><div><hr /></div><h2 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Sourc for Lucien Carr: Murr and the Beats New York Cy<div id="§sourc-for-lucien-rr-murr-and-the-beats--new-york-cy" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h2><ul><li><p><span>“Newsman Lucien Car Di at 79.” Mart Weil. The Washgton Post. Jan. 29, 2005. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>“Lucien Carr.” Eric Homberger. The Guardian. Feb. 8, 2005. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>“Lucien Carr, 79; Catalyst, Me for Beat Wrers.” Myrna Oliver. Los Angel Tim. Jan. 30, 2005. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Lucien Carr, a Founr and a Me of the Beat Generatn, Di at 79." Wilborn Hampton. The New York Tim. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Where Death Shaped the Beats." David J. Krajicek. The New York Tim. April 5, 2012. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Two Edors Named by U.P.I." The New York Tim. Feb. 18, 1984. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><em>Unrstandg Tman Capote</em><span>. Thomas Fahy. The Universy of South Carola Prs. 2014. Vis.</span></p></li><li><p><span>"The Last Beat." David J. Krajicek. Columbia Magaze. Wter 2012. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Kammerer, Carr, and an early Beat tragedy." David Sterrt. Oxford Universy Prs blog. July 26, 2013. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"The Tth Behd David Kammerer's Murr." Jennifer Bebe. Jan. 28, 2011. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"The St. Louis Clique: Burroughs, Kammerer, and Carr." Dt Griff. Journal of Beat Studi. Jan. 1, 2014. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Columbia Stunt Kills Friend and Sks Body Hudson River." Frank S. Adams. The New York Tim. Aug. 17, 1944. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Kammerer's Parents Proment." The New York Tim. Aug. 17, 1944. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Stunt Is Silent on Slayg Friend." The New York Tim. Aug. 18, 1944. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Stunt is Indicted on 2D-Degree Murr." The New York Tim. Aug. 25, 1944. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Stunt Slayer Sent to the Reformatory." The New York Tim. Oct. 7, 1944. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"When a Real-Life Killg Sent Two Future Beats Search of Their Voic." Michiko Kakutani. The New York Tim. Nov. 10, 2008. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><span>"Insi the Outsir." Chigo Tribune. Sep. 5, 1993. </span><a href=" rel>Vis</a></p></li><li><p><em>Amerin Scream: Allen Gsberg’s Howl and the Makg of a Beat Generatn</em><span>. Jonah Rask. Universy of California Prs. 2004. </span><a href=" rel>Purchase</a><span> (paid lk)</span></p></li><li><p><em>The Philosophy of the Beats</em><span>. Sharon N. Elkholy. Universy Prs of Kentucky. 2012. </span><a href=" rel>Purchase</a><span> (paid lk)</span></p></li><li><p><em>The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Lerature of the Beat Generatn</em><span>. Gregory Stephenson. 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