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''The Los Angeles Free Press'' (1964–1978; new series 2005–ongoing), also called “the Freep”, was among the most widely distributed underground newspapers of the 1960s. It is often cited as the first such newspaper. The ''Free Press'' was edited and published weekly, for most of its existence, by Art Kunkin, who, at the time of its founding, was a 36-year-old unemployed tool-and-die worker and former organizer for the Socialist Workers Party, where he had served as business manager of the SWP paper, ''The Militant.'' == History == The ''Free Press'' initially appeared as a one-shot 8-page tabloid, dated May 23, 1964, sold at the annual Los Angeles Renaissance Pleasure Faire and May Market, a fund-raising event for listener-sponsored KPFK radio. This first issue was entitled ''The Faire Free Press'', with the logo "''Los Angeles Free Press''" appearing on an inside page, and a coupon soliciting subscribers. Five thousand copies were printed, of which 1200 sold at a price of 25 cents. While the outside pages were a spoof of the fair's Renaissance theme featuring cute stories like one about a "ban the crossbow" demonstration, the inside contained legitimate underground community news and reviews. After the fair was over Kunkin circulated a brochure to potential investors and found enough backing to start putting out the paper on a regular weekly basis in July 1964. The ''Free Press'' was produced mostly by unpaid volunteers. In the beginning many of them were the same people who volunteered at KPFK, where Kunkin had his own political commentary radio show. It operated for its first two years out of free office space in the basement of a Sunset Boulevard coffeehouse called The Fifth Estate, which was an informal headquarters for the teenyboppers who gathered and rioted on the Sunset Strip in the mid-1960s.〔http://www.dabelly.com/columns/bohemian19.htm Rolfe, Lionel. "Notes of a California Bohemian: Cafe Au L.A." Retrieved Feb. 18, 2010.〕 Harlan Ellison and Lawrence Lipton were the first regular columnists, articles by the former collected in The Glass Teat. The paper grew slowly at first and in Oct. 1966 Kunkin informed a reporter for the ''Los Angeles Times'' that the paper had 9000 readers and was operating on a shoestring. "I wanted to do a weekly in Los Angeles that would be like the ''Village Voice'' in New York," Kunkin told the ''Times''.〔Nolan, Tom. "The Free Press Costs 15 Cents." ''Los Angeles Times'', Oct. 2, 1966, pg. W36.〕 This newspaper was notable for its radical politics when such views rarely saw print. This was a new kind of journalism at that time. The ''Free Press'' saw itself as an advocate of personal freedom as well as a vehicle to aid in the anti-Vietnam war movement. With its readership, particularly readers ready to sit, march, and sing, ''The Los Angeles Free Press'' is given degrees of credit for the ending of the Vietnam War, because of its coverage and how it became a touchstone for the activists, both everyday people and celebrities. It grew with the movement, and at its peak was selling over 100,000 copies, with national distribution. The ''Free Press'' wrote about and was often directly involved in the major historic issues and people of the 1960s and '70s such as the Chicago 7 Trial, 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Los Angeles Free Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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