Author Archives: Peter

Open City declared Peter Nolan Smith an underground punk legend of the 1970s East Village. The New England native spent many years as a nightclub doorman in New York, Paris, London, and Hamburg. The constant traveler has lived for long periods of time in Europe and the Far East. After a forced retirement from the Schmatta trade in Thailand, Peter Nolan Smith returned to New York to work in the international diamond trade. At summer’s end he resumed the life of a writer. The world’s leading leisureologist is currently based in Sri Racha, Thailand, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and Luxembourg City. He has no address.

Lost Letter 1981

My archives are filled with thousands of photos, hundreds of letters, and about forty journals of which I find only thirty-three. All from the 1970s into 1990s. One was from Teresa. “You’re the only one. All the rest are nothing.” I have no idea who she might be, but I have my suspicions. This might […]

Fifty-Nine Years Later

Today no one in New York had mentioned JFK’s bad day in Dallas. Neither the BBC, New York Times, nor Al-Jazeera wrote a single line about the November 22, 1963 tragedy, proving the old adage that as you get old you forget and as you get older you are forgotten. Fifty-nine years might be a […]

JFK Assassination Solved

Jackie Killed JFK in Dallas 1963. I never considered the 1st Lady as a suspect. The second shot. A revelation from a New York lamppost.

Cold Irish Revenge

I can remember what I was wearing on November 22, 1963. A white shirt, sky blue tie, and dark navy trousers were the boy’s uniform at Our Lady of the Foothills south of the Neponset River. It was a beautiful autumn day. Then Mother Mary Superior spoke over the intercom and tearfully announced, “President Kennedy […]

The Criminal Paradise