Editing Larry Flynt (section)

== Early life ==
Flynt was born in Lakeville, [[Magoffin County, Kentucky]], the first of three children of Larry Claxton Flynt Sr. (1919–2005), a [[Sharecropping|sharecropper]],<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kymagoff/txt/F-G-H/flynt_larry_claxton.txt Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. obituary] by ''Big Sandy News'' (July 6, 2005)</ref> and Edith (née Arnett; 1925–1982), a homemaker.<ref name="ancestry">[http://www.wargs.com/other/flynt.html Ancestry of Larry Claxton Flynt] at wargs.com</ref> He had two younger siblings: sister Judy (1947–1951) and brother [[Jimmy Flynt|Jimmy Ray Flynt]] (born 1948). His father served in the [[United States Army]] in the [[European theatre of World War II]]. Due to his father's absence, Flynt was raised solely by his mother and maternal grandmother for the first three years of his life.<ref name=Flynt-Ross-1996/>{{rp|12}} Flynt was raised in poverty, and said Magoffin County was the poorest county in the nation during the [[Great Depression]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Larry Flynt |title=Sex, Lies, & Politics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wfTkAAAACAAJ |access-date=May 2, 2011 |date=2004 |publisher=Aurum |isbn=978-1845130480}}</ref> In 1951, Flynt's sister, Judy,<ref>{{cite web |title=The People vs. Larry Flynt |year=1996 |publisher=Lehigh University |website=Lehigh.edu |url=http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/ssm6/ssm6-histcontext.html |access-date=December 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124164213/http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/ssm6/ssm6-histcontext.html |archive-date=January 24, 2013}}</ref> died of [[leukemia]] at age four.<ref>{{cite web |title=Larry Flint (1942-11-01) |website=Biography.com |url=http://www.biography.com/articles/Larry-Flynt-9542114?part-0 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |archive-date=June 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610125049/http://www.biography.com/articles/Larry-Flynt-9542114?part-0 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The death provoked his parents' divorce one year later; Flynt was then raised by his mother in [[Hamlet, Indiana]], and his brother, Jimmy, was raised by his maternal grandmother in Magoffin County. Two years later, Flynt returned to live in Magoffin County with his father because he disliked his mother's new boyfriend.<ref name=Flynt-Vega-Schwartz-1998/>{{rp|285}}<ref name=Flynt-Ross-1996/>{{rp|12}}

Flynt attended Salyersville High School (now [[Magoffin County High School]]) in the ninth grade. However, he ran away from home and, despite being only 15 years old, joined the [[United States Army]] using a counterfeit birth certificate.<ref name=Flynt-Ross-1996/>{{rp|16–17}} It was around that time that he developed a passion for the game of [[poker]]. After being honorably discharged, Flynt returned to his mother in [[Indiana]] and found employment at the Inland Manufacturing Company, an affiliate of [[General Motors]]. However, there was a union-led slowdown and he was laid off after only three months.<ref name=Flynt-Ross-1996/>{{rp|21}} He then returned to his father in Kentucky. For a brief period, he became a [[rum-running|bootlegger]] but stopped when he learned that county deputies were searching for him.<ref name=Flynt-Ross-1996/>{{rp|22–23}} After living on his savings for two months, he enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] in July 1960. He became a radar operator on {{USS|Enterprise|CVN-65|6}}. He was the operator on duty when the ship was assigned to recover [[John Glenn]]'s space capsule.<ref name=Flynt-Ross-1996/>{{rp|38}} He was honorably discharged in July&nbsp;1964.