Los Angeles Free Press: "LIberated Orgasms" "Nuclear War Threat" [Headlines] Vol. 8 #50, #387, Dec 17-23 1971 by Kunkin, Art, publisher and editor - 1971

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1971. Newspaper. 40 p., 17.5x11.5 inch tabloid newspaper; flat, toned, a few tiny marginal tears and edge and shelf wear, previous owner's initials/subscription label on cover wrap, very good copy. Inside find: "City Councilman Raps Vice Laws", "Jerry Rubin: From Chile with Love", Interviews with Yoko Ono and James Baldwin, "Confessions of a Free Press distributor", "Terminal Island [Prison] Hunger strike", "L.A. Police raid Birthday Party", "What the Attica Prisoners Demanded", full page advert issues by over one hundred trade union leaders on September 9, 1971 calling on working people to march against the war in Vietnam Nov 6, various reviews of counter-culture, music and entertainment.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1967. Newspaper. 40p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly toned, wraps lightly soiled, front wrap stained, else good condition. Inside find a proposed HUAC investigation of underground newspapers (Joe Pool, D-Texas); "'We are 18 months from open revolt in this country'" (Dick Gregory, interviewed during one of his fasts); "Toronto serves cold cult's hunger" (on Toronto hippies and the challenge of keeping warm).

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1968. Newspaper. 28p., complete in one section; 17.5x11.5 inch tabloid newspaper; paperstock toned, mild signs of handling, front wrap lightly stained, else good on newsprint. Inside find "Dylan in tribute to Woody" (reviewer David Mark Dashev contemptuous of nearly every performer who participated, liked Jack Elliot); "Black Panthers growl over brother shooting;" lots of film and theatre reviews; and a fullpage Jimi Hendrix concert ad twiddled to show his band wearing Zorro masks. The atrocity fraud was perpetrated by William Steuart McBirnie who took stills from the movie "Sand Pebbles" and presented them as having been smuggled out of China.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1966. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, reports, news, opinion, events, reviews, political actions, services & resources, evenly toned, edgeworn, pen and pencil notations on both wraps, else good condition. Cover story on Timothy Leary.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1967. Newspaper. 24p., complete in one section; 17.5x11.5 inch tabloid newspaper; toned paperstock, front wrap foxed, else good on newsprint. Inside find "Bountiful Christmas at Delano marred by grape strike;" "Penn's 'Mickey One' tops 'Bonnie & Clyde';" and a story/interview with Edward English, poet from Selma Alabama, whose readings were scheduled at the local SDS office, at UCLA, LACC, and the LA Unitarian church. For a Free Press joke, see p.5, a 6x3.5 inch diagram (expertly drawn) depicting a switch of sites between the Book Depository and Knoll/Pergola area; frontal shots came from the depository after all!

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1967. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly toned, wraps lightly edgeworn, top corner dog-eared, front wrap lightly stained, else good condition. Inside find "Gov. Ronnie and college board overkill Summerskill;" "Bishop Pike talk at Irvine" with portrait photo; an interview of Robert Scheer of Ramparts Magazine by Paul Eberle of the FP; substantial reviews of Jefferson Airplane and Blue Cheer rock bands; an interview with Mort Sahl; and many pages devoted to Garrison's investigation.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1967. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly toned, sticker scar and light foxing on front wrap, else good condition. Inside find story on and interview with Mort Sahl "Assassination Still An Issue;" "Old Angels Never Die, They Turn Digger" (on the motorcycle club rapprochement with free food movement), KPFK censorship, Tuli Kupferberg on the Politics of Love, Phil Ochs on "the War is Over", and an Arab perspective on the Middle East war.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1968. Newspaper. 28p., complete in one section; 17.5x11.5 inch tabloid newspaper; paperstock toned, else very good on newsprint. Inside find "Black militants could welcome open housing;" "Basis for April resistance trials described;" "Thousands not paying 10% federal phone excise tax" (war resistance); "Nun power grows;" "McLuhan in another medium" (his books are too odd to assimilate but the LP record/audio collage made from 'Medium Massage' is a winner); "Eartha Kitt wins hearts of black people" (Hakim Jamal by-line); "Students reflect future of cinema" (accompanying photo of Lucas shooting THX); "Free Clinic" (on Fairfax; opened 2 January); "Report from swinging London [yes, England] town

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1967. Newspaper. 24p., complete in one section; 17.5x11.5 inch folded tabloid; evenly toned, front wrap lightly foxed and beginning to split along fold, else good on newsprint. Inside find Quincy Troupe on "Watts: No Change Since '65 Rebellion;" Nat Freedland on La Vey's "Church of Satan," "Army at War with Leaflets;" "Detroit - Revolution in the Revolution;" "Digger and Better Things" (L.A. Diggers, San Souci Temple); "Alpert Is a Jewish Mother;" "Jackson Pollock Retrospective" [headlines].

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Free Press, 1971. Newspaper. 64p. in two sections, 17.5x11.5 inch tabloid newspaper; smudges & wear on cover, light toning evenly throughout, initials of previous owner and subscription label on upper right corner of cover, shelf and edge worn with light tearing along most edges, else a good copy. Part 1: "The Selling Out of America", "Christopher Street West", "Nazis vs JDL', more. Part II, Living Arts section: reviews of film, the arts, counterculture, music and a lot more.