Why Couldn't Lansberry Get Mail? Just one of the Colorful Characters who roamed Downtown Pittsburgh Streets Was it Mind Control?

 When I was a young man and attending Connely Skill Center as I was waiting for a bus or trolley home  you often ran across some colorful characters . The Tall Thin white  guy with signs he carried saying he was Black Balled by US Steel and could not get work.  The guy with no legs who sold pencils  ,the pretzel guy and others all of whom have passed on over the years,.

But one of the most memorable guys was Robert R. Lansberry  who carried signs that said "  why cant Lansberry get mail "

He claimed the CIA was trying to control his mind and where censoring his mail and why he was not getting any. and he picked on congressman Coyne about it often with profane language signs


Now he was not your ordinary mentally ill kook.

He was at one time a highly educated man owned a grocery store and worked for IBM and Westinghouse and  who fell into mental illness.

But with a twist yes some one was monitoring his mail  and possibly trying to control his mind read his fascinating story in the link below 

http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990611lansberry9.asp

Was there some one trying to control him? you decide 

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