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John "Jonathan" Gilmore (July 5, 1935 – October 13, 2016) [1] was an American author and gonzo journalist known for iconoclastic Hollywood memoirs, true crime literature and hard-boiled fiction. A motion picture, television and stage actor in Los Angeles and New York in the 1950s, Gilmore has also written about his encounter with Elizabeth ...
John Gilmore (born 1955) is an American activist. He is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation , the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions . He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project .
Gilmore is known for two rather different styles of tenor playing. On performances of a straight ahead post-bop character (which include many of those with Sun Ra), he runs the changes with a fluency and tone halfway between Johnny Griffin and Wardell Gray , and with a rhythmic and motivic approach which he claims influenced Coltrane.
John Gilmore (activist) (born 1955), co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions John Gilmore (musician) (1931–1995), American jazz saxophonist John Gilmore (representative) (1780–1845), Pennsylvania politician
Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder is a 1994 American historical true crime book by John Gilmore.The book details the life and death of Elizabeth Short, also known as "The Black Dahlia," an infamous murder victim whose mutilated body was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles in 1947, and whose murder has remained unsolved for decades.
In late 1992, Eric Hughes, Timothy C. May, and John Gilmore founded a small group that met monthly at Gilmore's company Cygnus Solutions in the San Francisco Bay Area and was humorously termed cypherpunks by Jude Milhon at one of the first meetings—derived from cipher and cyberpunk. [7]
Gilmore was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Margaret Evelyn (née Kandle), a church secretary, and James Stuart Gilmore Jr., a grocery store meat cutter. [8] He graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1971.
John Henry Gilmore Jr. (born September 21, 1979) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 2002 NFL draft. [1] He played college football at Penn State. Gilmore also played for the Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Pittsburgh Steelers ...