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  There's been no shortage of people coming forward who claim to have inside information about the assassination of JFK. Two of these people contacted the Garrison investigation in 1967 - Richard Case Nagell and David Kroman. Nagell would go on and become a staple of conspiracy theorists while Kroman has been largely forgotten. But their stories intertwine, at least at the beginning. Garrison's office received an intriguing letter in March of 1967: You can see Garrison's notation on the left regarding Long Beach: "1. To which Ha...

The battle over the right to access People’s Park in Berkeley began over 50 years ago, but it never really ended. Now, UC Berkeley plans to develop the

S. Clay Wilson, Taboo-Breaking Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 79 His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.” S. Clay Wilson’s cover for Zap Comix No. 3; he also contributed a 10-page story to the issue. His influence on fellow underground cartoonists was evident and ubiquitous.Credit...S. Clay Wilson/Zap Comix Feb. 9, 2021 S. Clay Wilson, the most scabrous and rollicking of the underground cartoonists who first achieved notoriety as contributors to Zap Comix in the late 196...

Exhibition at the Grolier Club presents highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazo, MD Fire!!: A Quarterly Devoted to Younger Negro Artists, volume 1, number 1, November 1926. New York: The Fire!! Press. One of three known copies of this important Harlem Renaissance publication, signed by the contributors. Collection of Dr. Steven Lomazow. NEW YORK, NY .- Reflecting the broad spectrum of American culture, printed magazines from the 18th through the 21st centuries have both driven and documented the American experience. The Grolier Club’s winter exhibition, Magazines and the American Ex...

"The only American newspapers that do not leave me in the grip of a profound physical conviction that the oxygen has been cut off from my brain, very probably by an Associated Press wire …," she begins in an essay that goes on to criticize traditional news outlets, including the wire service carrying this review, for pretending that there is such a thing as neutral, unbiased, objective reporting. That article, "Alicia and the Underground Press," was a snarky ode to alternative newspapers in the 1960s like the East Village Other and Berkeley Barb that might have been "amateurish and badly wr...