Tupper Saussy

Frederick Tupper Saussy III (July 3, 1936 – March 16, 2007) was an American composer, musician, author, artist, tax protester and conspiracy theorist. He was a self-styled theologian, restaurant owner, ghostwriter of James Earl Ray’s purported autobiography, King assassination conspiracy theorist, anti-government pamphleteer, and radical opponent of the federal government’s taxation and monetary authority. He was born in Statesboro, Georgia; grew up in Tampa, Florida; and graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1958. His jazz combo there put out a university-subsidized album, Jazz at Sewanee, which included several original compositions. Thereafter Saussy taught English at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, co-founded an advertising agency, McDonald and Saussy, and kept his musical career alive with recording dates and club sessions. With the Nashville Symphony, he composed a work called The Beast with Five Heads (1965/66), based on “The Bremen Town Musicians”, designed to replace Peter and the Wolf as a work to teach schoolchildren about the instruments of the orchestra, which continued to be used for the next fifteen years. For its 1968/