![]() The first strong confirmation of this came one night when Jack physically prevented me from attending the closing of Squat Theater’s production of The Three Sisters (he’d been dropped from the cast, or quit I’ll leave it to Jack’s historians to sort out the details) by dragging me into the park at Twenty-third Street and Madison Avenue, claiming some urgent business between us that had to be settled on the spot. I vaguely perceived from the time I met Jack that somewhere in the middle future, travel between the real world and Jack’s world would become too difficult and punishing to sustain the friendship. His friendship required complicity with his madness the closer you got, the more complicity was demanded. In those days I was always testing how far I would go with drugs, with sex, and with certain uniquely controlling figures like Jack. How far you would let Jack take you into his world was the same sort of scary challenge that drugs presented. ![]() Outside that magic kingdom he was quite mad, and though his madness was essentially benign it could wear you out. Within his hermetic realm Jack was utterly logical and everything he did made perfect sense. The world he lived in had great appeal, and it also had a terrifying lack of boundaries. ![]() There was some kind of mesmerizing genius behind his obstinate eccentricity. If one could sum up Jack’s personality in a single word, it would have to be insistent. He could spend hours readjusting some peripheral aspect of a pile of debris, puncturing long silences only with occasional cryptic non sequiturs about penguins or a startling piece of extremely bad nutritional advice. Jack lived in an apartment on First Avenue full of colorful garbage. Speed gives you fantastic obsessive energy but also enables a junklike stasis, the ability to sit in the same place for five or ten hours listening to scratched 45s and looking at photos of Maria Montez. ** ZachNews sends our thoughts, prayers, and condolences to the family and friends of Chad Russell Elkins from Fort Mohave, Arizona.I saw a lot of Jack Smith during a period when I was basically a speed freak. Rescue boat returned but by then dark and they couldn’t tell what was happening.” They noticed rescue boat docked, picked up 2 people and left to go out to river, then yellow + white ambulance or ME examr truck pulled up along with fire captain truck or smaller fire truck. Terry Powell telling ZachNews by email, “My mom and sister live in the house looking into Jack Smith Park. While we were out boat my son seen something floating at about 4:30. Ronna Johnson telling ZachNews by email, “My family and I went out on the boat for the first time today. ZachNews was alerted late Sunday evening about something spotted along the Colorado River and fire department and rescue boat activity Jack Smith Memorial Park thanks to ZachNews fans Ronna Johnson and Terry Powell from Needles, California. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the We-Tip Hotline at: 1 (800) 78-CRIME (27463) or leave information We-Tip Hotline online website at: The investigation is ongoing and anybody with additional information regarding this investigation is urged to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Colorado River Station at: 1 (760) 326-9200. The cause of death is currently under investigation. ![]() The coroner was able to identify the male subject as 46 year old Chad Russell Elkins from Fort Mohave, Arizona with the assistance of the Mohave County Sheriff’s Department. The deceased was recovered from the river and transported to Jack Smith Memorial Park were he was released to the coroner. Breaking News!!: Needles, CA: Death investigation into a body floating along the Colorado River near Jack Smith Memorial Park.Īccording to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, at approximately 4:24pm PT on Sunday, November 5th, 2017, deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Colorado River Station were dispatched to a body floating in the Colorado River just south of Jack Smith Memorial Park in needles, California.Ī deputy with the Marine Enforcement Unit launched a patrol boat and made contact with the reporting party, who had stayed along side the body until the deputy arrived on scene. ![]()
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