Helix Vol. V No. 8 December 5, 1968: Gears Under Stress cover. Kennedy Assassination Probe: Boeing Employee to Testify In New Orleans Garrison Case
Seattle: Helix, 1968. Jim Normanden (center spread photo). First Printing. Tabloid Newspaper. Tabloid printed on newsprint measuring 11.5 x 16 inches. Pp. 16. Covers and center spread printed in colors both sides. Slight age-toning to edges, else a bright, well preserved copy. Very Good. Item #6701 In late spring 1967, Helix joined a burgeoning underground press then including groundbreaking alternative papers the East Village Other, the Los Angeles Free Press, the Fifth Estate and the Berkeley Barb. Founded by Paul Sawyer, Paul Dorpat and Lorenzo Milam, it sprang from their intellectual fervor at the Free University, an alternative thinktank they also founded. Eventually star-illustrator Walt Crowley assumed editorship. A pebble in the shoe of Seattle establishment, the "hip rag" brought attention to civic injustice by rallying its youthful readership to activism. The apogee of that effort followed the 1970 killing of students at Kent State: over the course of May 5-8, Helix organized protests that blocked US Interstate 5 while marching between the University District and rallies at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. This issue is housed in a removable, clear sleeve with acid-free backing.
An issue of the Seattle underground bi-weekly (that transitioned to a weekly in September 1969) with articles on the Port Angeles City Council considering a ban on John Lennon's Two Virgins album cover, Dave Lippman on The Beatles as Counterrevolutionaries, Phillip Arnautoff and Fred Berg commentaires on Giovanni Costigan articles, Stu Glauberman interview with R. Crumb, photo of Milo Johnstone's 1932 Ford flatbed gypsy truck ready for Mexico. Ads for the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Sweetwater at the Arena, the Roach Tavern on Ballard Ave., and Campus Music. With inside cover providing split fountain instructions in yellow - orange - red.
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