Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has secured enough votes on the state's Executive Clemency Board to ensure that Jim Morrison, the former lead singer of seminal '60s rock group the Doors, will receive a posthumous pardon for an indecent exposure conviction.
Crist secured the second of two votes needed from members of the four-member board (which includes himself) necessary to allow Morrison to be cleared of the charges, the Orlando Sentinel reported. That means that "the Lizard King," as he was known, will officially be pardoned on Thursday, almost 40 years after Morrison passed away.
As Surge Desk reported three weeks ago, Crist characterized his decision to pardon Morrison, who died in 1970, as "the right thing to do." The Morrison pardon represents one of the final acts for Crist, who failed in his bid to become a Florida senator, in his role as governor.
Here's a clip put together by Louis Wolfson of the Florida Moving Image Archive that revisits Florida's actions against Morrison following a 1969 Doors concert at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium at which Morrison is said to have exposed himself to audience members.
Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek claims that Morrison never actually exposed himself to the crowd. "It never actually happened," Manzarek said. "It was mass hypnosis."
Hallucination or not, the pardon is for real, and somewhere Morrison is smiling.
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