The Giant Gila Monster with original drummer of The Cramps, Miriam Linna

Entrepreneur Miriam Linna (The Cramps/Norton Records co-founder) returns to Dallas to reveal all in a spellbinding presentation connecting Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, monster movies, and more! Linna’s talk is the prelude to a screening of the locally-produced and filmed creature feature classic, THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959).

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Come early for DJ fun spinning rare and obscure hits of 1963, including local musician Joe Johnson’s “Giant Gila Monster.” Please visit the Kicks Books/Norton table and snag a keepsake poster of the night’s event.

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Miriam Linna joined seminal Psychobilly band The Cramps in 1976 as its original drummer. She and Billy Miller co-founded New York-based Norton Records in 1986 to uncover, and recover great un-lauded music — hillbilly, rhythm & blues, instrumental, garage, doowop, and soul music. In 2013 Linna debuted Songs from the Grassy Knoll, an album of tribute and topical songs regarding the JFK assassination.

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Co-presented by Half Price Books, Top Ten Records, and the Dallas Municipal Archives.