Stories I Tell MyselfBy: Juan F. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson, smart hillbilly, boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay at home mom, public school educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, member of the U. S. Air Force (Airmen Second Class), copy boy for Time, writer for The National Observer, et cetera. From the outset he was the Wild Man of American journalism with a journalistic appetite that