Daniel Baransky

Daniel Baransky (1955–1986) was rumoured to be the youngest member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. In 1967, Danny, then a 12-year-old runaway, was befriended by John Griggs who found him "sitting barefoot, lonely and lost."The boy had made the cross country trip from Philadelphia to San Diego, but while hitchhiking to San Francisco, was robbed of his knapsack and shoes near Oceanside. Confused and dazed, he was rescued by Griggs, a former Anaheim Gang leader who had been transformed by an LSD experience, Danny was nicknamed 'Bomb' and became part of a group that preached an epistle of Love and LSD.

Guided by Griggs and the defrocked Harvard professor Timothy Leary, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love became the largest distribution network for psychedelic drugs in the 60’s and 70’s. His young age, often useful in special situations, kept him, for the most part, in the group’s background. He lived at the house on Roosevelt Lane.

His involvement with the group ended in 1969, shortly after John Griggs' death from a drug overdose. He returned to the East Coast and was quickly sent off to a New Jersey Military School.

In 1972, he was questioned by the FBI concerning the Leary Prison Escape, but according to records acquired through "Freedom of Information Act" was "uncooperative and unhelpful". Daniel shortly thereafter dropped from the radar. He attended Duquesne University and graduated from the Charles Morris Price School with a degree in Journalism in 1975.

Baransky died in 1986.

External links

• OC Weekly article about the Brotherhood
• FBI FOIA Freedom of Information Act - FBI

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Name	Baransky, Daniel
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Date of birth	1955
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Date of death	1984
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