Well if they went to that trouble – why in the hell didn’t they take a pic? I mean - we have recent pics of Bigfoot - no?
Anyway, for those in need — here is a link to about 50 Jack Chick pamphlets – in full glory -
I’m getting nostalgic for the old x-entertainment articles that re-wrote the Chick tracts until they got threatened with legal action and had to take them down. Fair right to parody, my foot.
In the late 1980s, the Fox “news” show The Reporters tracked down Chick and caught him on camera. I only saw part of it, but he was morbidly obese, and once he found out he was on camera, pretty much bolted (after threatening the reporter).
According to 957 of his copyright registrations, Jack T. Chick was born in 1924. The California birth index says that Jack T. Chick was born in Los Angeles County on 13 April 1924, making him 80 years old now.
Upon his death, any passport photos of Jack Chick on file with the U.S. State Deparment will be available to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request. The State Department (and eventually the National Archives) keeps these passport photos indefinitely, and has them going back to the 1910s.
This man met Jack Chick
How does Jack Chick, if there still is a Jack Chick, make his money? I know he wholesales his publications, but how many of those could he move out the door in a year?
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Cite?
I just log on and I’m greeted with that? You’re kidding --------- right?
Because you have to get permission to publish someone’s likeness, there have been numerous lawsuits in the US over unauthorized publication of photographs. Please read this link if you are interested in generalities on the current law.
Do you have a question that hasn’t been answered yet?
Sure ---- I think the whole matter comes down to “expectation of privacy” – which, under most circumstances, a person doesn’t reasonably have while in public -.
Here’s what Cecil says on the matter –
This is a great example of why I love these boards!
That article by our beloved leader speaks of Taking Pictures of People in Public, not *publishing * them. I’m sure many pictures of Jack Chick exist, probably owned by members of his family, and sit of the shelves of their living rooms.
I was speaking of the legality of *Publishing * Pictures Taken of Unwary Citizens, which is the question I thought you were asking. Obviously, I was wrong.
Is there an answerable question here?
In the year 4000, Jack will be considered a Prophet.
A lot of biographical information is available on Jack Chick, besides the biography at his own website. Here are a few things that are available from on-line sources:
• Jack Chick lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora (his home address is listed in public tax records).
• According to on-line records at the National Archives, Jack T. Chick was enlisted in the U.S. Army at Los Angeles on 1 February 1943, when he was an 18-year-old college student. He served as a warrant officer for the duration of the war. Obtainable via a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Personnel Records Center are: dates of service, awards and decorations, and places of entrance and separation.
•The U.S. census of 1930 says that 5-year-old “Jackie” Chick was living in a rented home in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina. His parents Thomas and Pauline (neé Freas) were born in 1903 in Arizona and Oklahoma respectively, and married at age 19. Thomas’s parents were born in California and Missouri, Pauline’s parents were born in Pennsylvania and Germany. They also had a daughter Doris, born in 1926. Thomas was a commercial artist.
• Thomas Chick died in 1973, Pauline Chick died in 1991. Both were residing in Arizona.
•Jack’s wife Lola Lynn (neé Priddle) was born in Canada in 1926 and died in California in 1998.
• Jack and Lynn’s child is daughter Carol, born in 1952.
• Chick Publications was incorporated in California in 1969. Its directors and officers, past and present, are in corporation records available from the California Secretary of State’s office.
Given that Jack Chick is a public person (he publishes biographical information about himself at his own website), there would be no legal bar to publishing pictures of him taken in public places. Several pictures have been published of reclusive author J.D. Salinger in such manner.
No, actually. Serious. You said we have pictures of Bigfoot. I seem to have misplaced mine. Could you post a link to yours?
Here’s a photo that was supposedly taken in 2002. It is supposed to show Bigfoot reclining against a tree – napping maybe -
http://www.bigfootsurplus.com/museum/bigfoot/re-ohioresearch.html
Here’s some from the 1990s and before –
Now you show me recent pictures of Jack Chick —
I’m failing to understand why you think someone on a message board is going to have a picture of a very reclusive, minor public figure. Jack Chick has a website with phone numbers and email addresses, why don’t you write him and ask for a picture?
If you are wondering whether or not the man really exists, there’s a wikipedia article about him, there’s a book written by a Mr. Robert Fowler available on Amazon.com, and an article originally published in the Los Angles Magazine by Robert Ito.
Your original question asked us to speculate on the reasoning of a man (I assume) most of us have never met, and you yourself compared to the mythical Bigfoot. Again I ask, do you have a factual, answerable question?
Dude, those pictures are blurry enough, they could be pictures of Jack Chick.