Daniel Baransky (1955 – 1986) was rumoured to be the youngest member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. In 1967, Danny, then a 12-year-old runaway, was befriended by John Griggs who found him "sitting barefoot, lonely and lost."The boy had made the cross country trip from Philadelphia to San Diego, but while hitchhiking to San Francisco, was robbed of his knapsack and shoes near Oceanside. Confused and dazed, he was rescued by Griggs, a former A...
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Daniel Baransky (1955 – 1986) was rumoured to be the youngest member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. In 1967, Danny, then a 12-year-old runaway, was befriended by John Griggs who found him "sitting barefoot, lonely and lost."The boy had made the cross country trip from Philadelphia to San Diego, but while hitchhiking to San Francisco, was robbed of his knapsack and shoes near Oceanside. Confused and dazed, he was rescued by Griggs, a former Anaheim Gang leader who had been transformed by an LSD experience, Danny was nicknamed 'Bomb' and became part of a group that preached an epistle of Love and LSD.
Guided by Griggs and the defrocked Harvard professor Timothy Leary, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love became the largest distribution network for psychedelic drugs in the 60’s and 70’s. His young age, often useful in special situations, kept him, for the most part, in the group’s background. He lived at the house on Roosevelt Lane.
His involvement with the group ended in 1969, shortly...
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