L.A. Free Press Returns
For 10 years after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, the Los Angeles Free Press helped to establish the era’s political, social and spiritual agendas.
Founding publisher, editor and rebel with a cause Art Kunkin announced this week he is reviving the Free Press, which began publishing in 1964. It went bankrupt in 1972.
The first edition of the new Free Press is set for Dec. 17.
“A lot of people are clearly upset with the Democrats and Republicans,” says Kunkin, who decided to bring back the paper after the November elections. “[The Free Press was] the alternative political voice in the 1960s and can be again.”
The paper was one of the first to publish now-legendary poets and writers, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
Friday at 8:30 p.m., Kunkin presents “Rebel Rebel: The History of the L.A. Free Press” at Angel City Bookstore, 218 Pier Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 399-8767.
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