Jim Morrison receives pardon in Florida
Written by Post Public Information Representative, Dec 9, 2010, 0 Comments
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, SUZETTE LABOY
The Associated Press
It comes a day after what would have been The Doors frontman’s 67th birthday
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Forty years after Jim Morrison was convicted of exposing himself at a wild Miami concert, this is the end: Florida’s Clemency Board, egged on by departing Gov. Charlie Crist, pardoned The Doors’ long-dead singer Thursday. Some people who were at the Miami show March 1, 1969, insist even today that he exposed himself, though others in the audience and Morrison’s bandmates contend he was just teasing the crowd and only pretended to do the deed. (Read More)