Jim Morrison's Final Year With The Doors Was Even MORE Disturbing Than You Think

Subscribe to the channel if you LOVE The Doors:    / @rockstarsecrets3   Early on July 3, 1971, Pamela Courson found Jim Morrison dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment. Under a will he'd signed more than two years earlier, everything he owned was supposed to go to her. The story everyone knows is that a drunken concert in Miami broke him, the trial wore him down, and Paris was a rest that came too late. He was leaving. Halfway through the Miami trial, facing jail, he wrote in his notebook that the joy of performing had ended. Months later he finished the last album he owed his record label, and he was living in Paris before it came out. The will also said that if Pamela didn't outlive him, everything would go to his brother and sister instead. She outlived him. Those two still ended up owning half of what he left. It started in Miami. But before Miami came a fight over a Buick commercial, the first time he said no to the rest of the band and won. Sources and Further Reading Court and public records State of Florida v. James Douglas Morrison, Dade County Case No. 69-2355 (warrant March 5, 1969; verdict September 20, 1970; sentence October 30, 1970) Densmore v. Manzarek et al., Los Angeles Superior Court (filed 2003; ruling by Judge Gregory Alarcon, July 22, 2005) California Court of Appeal decision, Densmore v. Manzarek (May 2008); review denied by the California Supreme Court, August 13, 2008 Florida Board of Executive Clemency, pardon of James Douglas Morrison, December 9, 2010 Contemporaneous reporting Larry Mahoney, Miami Herald, March 3 and March 6, 1969 Ben Fong-Torres, "Jim Morrison's Got the Blues," Rolling Stone No. 77, March 4, 1971 Rolling Stone, obituary of Jim Morrison, August 1971 (including attorney Max Fink's description of the will) Later reporting The Hollywood Reporter, coverage of the Densmore appeal ruling, May 2008 Pollstar, coverage of the Alarcon ruling, July 2005 The Daily Beast, interview with Anne Morrison Chewning on The Collected Works of Jim Morrison, June 2021 Associated Press, obituary of Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison, November 2008 Primary Wave Music, announcement of Doors catalog acquisition, January 23, 2023 NPR, interviews with Ray Manzarek on the Miami concert Naval records Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) USS Bon Homme Richard Association, ship history and commanding officers Books Jim Morrison, The Collected Works of Jim Morrison, edited by Frank Lisciandro with Anne Morrison Chewning (HarperCollins, 2021) John Densmore, Riders on the Storm (1990) and The Doors: Unhinged (2013) Robby Krieger, Set the Night on Fire (2021) Ray Manzarek, Light My Fire (1998) The Doors, The Doors by The Doors (2006) Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, No One Here Gets Out Alive (1980) Stephen Davis, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend (2004) Sam Bernett, The End: Jim Morrison (2007)