San Francisco Express Times

If you're going to Chicago, be sure to wear some armor in your hair.

August 21, 1968, Volume 1, Number 31

(editors) Marvin Garson & Robert Novick

Contributors include: Marvin Garson, Todd Gitlin, Paul Glusman, Marlene Charyn, Lenny Glaser, Lee Oleson, Sandy Darlington and others.


©1968 The Trystero Company

Original Issue

Full-page rear cover for The Big Tent of Hermes Trismegistus (The Berkeley Astrology Guild)

Newspaper print paper format

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Contributors include: Marvin Garson, Todd Gitlin, Paul Glusman, Marlene Charyn, Lenny Glaser, Lee Oleson, Sandy Darlington and others.


Articles covering the trial of Huey P. Newton, Eldridge chooses Jerry Rubin for his running mate, the Oakland Seven, the Chicago Convention of 1968, a lengthy interview with Pete Townsend of The Who... along with some US politics and several other hot, local & national happenings of the time. Many illustrated ads, photos and other artistic expressions throughout.


SOME Highlights:

Condition:  SEE IMAGES.  Newspaper print format periodical. This is the vintage, real deal.  Not a reprint.  Not a photocopy.  Not a facsimile.  This issue is in solid VERY GOOD condition.  The pages are LIGHTLY yellowed as is common with newspaper print papers and the passage of 50+ years.  NOT severe, quite mild, barely worth mentioning, but I see it so I do mention it.  There may be some SHORT edge tearing, but not excessive, and nothing long or extending into the content.  The black & white illustrations/photos, all art/photos are sharp.  NO markings.  NO staining/soiling.  NO chipping.  Folded, as originally distributed.  Preserved in an acid-free archival bag with backing board.  IMO, gift or collection quality. 

 

The San Francisco Express Times ran for 62 issued during 1968 & 1969. A newsprint format Underground Press periodical, the issues were filled with articles, essays, local ads, poetry, photos and all sorts of then Current Events. Deep focus was given to the 1968 Chicago Convention and presidential race, university/student/city protests & riots, but there was plenty of other topics of interest. Largely focused on politics, social reform, activism music and arts, these issues really didn?t have boundaries for governing their content (that I can see). Many of the illustrations, full page rear covers, and also the 2-page spread center page illustrates are breathtaking. Photos of great beauty and also others of extreme visuals. Language can be coarse, words and terminology (of the time) often in the extreme, and just a no holds barred approach. Contributors included founder Marvin Garson as well as Paul Williams, Todd Gitlin, William Sarill and others, along with a serialization of the novel Berkeley Guns by Lenny Heller. Per the Wiki, FOIA documents released have shown that the FBI had infiltrated the SF Express Times (as well as others) with paid informants on staff.

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