The stripped-down Townsend Brown narrative in “Just the Facts, Ma’am” is bereft of the glamorous enhancements that add drama to his story. For example, the tale of how Townsend lost a finger (in a post war snatch-and-grab mission) added a super spylicious touch to the TTB mythos. But the reality seems to be that it …
How much of the published Townsend Brown story holds up to scrutiny? For those of us who were born BTV* Dragnet was our first exposure to televised crime drama. From time to time, the star of the show, Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) had to calm an overly excited witness in order to get “Just …
Oral histories are catnip for historians, and Gone Dark: 50 Years after Albert Einstein: The Failure of the Unified Field makes for giddy reading. This was published on the web in 2005 and the author was insistent that these pages, perhaps part of of a future book, should be not ever be copyrighted. “W. B. …
The MIN* in Black told Paul that uncovering Townsend Brown’s true contributions would be a ‘multi- generational’ project. It has taken a few iterations but we are almost past the bobbled narrative of Moore and Berlitz. The Hunt For Zero Point+ helped somewhat, but even Nick Cook seemed inclined to accept that Townsend’s reputation was …
Here’s a welcome addition to the Townsend Brown canon: With this post, we introduce Jan Lunquist. Jan has been onboard the Townsend Brown Train almost as long as I have. The archive of material she has gathered lends further credence to Brown as the mysterious-but-super-savant ‘Forrest Gump’ of 20th century science, possessed of a curious …
