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L.A. Free Press
The ''Los Angeles Free Press'', also called the "''Freep''", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground press, underground newspapers of the 1960s. The ''Freep'' was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher until 1971 and continued on as its editor-in-chief through June 1973. The paper closed in 1978. It was unsuccessfully revived a number of times afterward. Overview From its inception, the ''LA Free Press'' was notable for its radical politics when, in the mid-1960s, such views rarely saw print. It wrote about and was often directly involved in the major historic issues and with the people who shaped the 1960s and 1970s, including the Chicago Seven, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Abbie Hoffman. Both the famous and the infamous would open up to the ''Los Angeles Free Press'', from Bob Dylan to the Black Panthers to Jim Morrison to Iceberg Slim. This was a new kind of journalism at that time. The ''Free Press'' saw itsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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