Introducing Project 1965

In hindsight, it seems obvious. Amidst the regime building of the 21st century, it's evident that Coyle & Sharpe’s street blitz, codenamed Project 1965, executed in San Francisco between 1963 and 1965, serves as an uncanny precursor to today’s Project 2025. Driven by their quest for authoritarian power, Coyle & Sharpe sought to upend American democratic norms (no more personal freedom) in a series of “terrorizations” against the unsuspecting citizens of San Francisco.

Though their catalog of releases, starting with their debut, “The Absurd Imposters,” features tracks like “Armored Attack” and “Transporting Captured People,” which foreshadow contemporary intimidation tactics, this blog will also delve into their newly declassfied materials to explore this once-in-a-century phenomenon. As we hang in perfect planetary alignment with Coyle & Sharpe’s Kennedy-era vision for the future, we are now able to peer through the looking glass and uncover the secret messages these two time travelers sought to broadcast to the future.

Despite Coyle & Sharpe’s domination of San Francisco’s airwaves six nights a week (KGO’s “Coyle & Sharpe On the Loose”), the duo failed to attain control over the city by 1965, as hoped. Nonetheless, revisiting their work 60 years later, it's clear why Field Marshals James P. Coyle and Mal Sharpe’s legacy of DIY authoritarianism remains essential listening for today’s aspiring tyrants and anarchists alike.