1968 BERKELEY BARB – TIMOTHY LEARY, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 BERKELEY BARB. March 22-28, 1968. Volume 6, Number 13. Issue 136. Berkeley’s most famous counter-culture newspaper, the Berkeley Barb, published every Friday, first appeared in August 1965, as the opposition to the war in Vietnam swung into high gear and the San Francisco Bay Area became the center (so many saw it) of the protest movement. Founded by Max Scherr, the Barb (15 cents per copy at the time of this issue) quickly gained influence as the newspaper in the know, despite its relatively small circulation. This issue devotes its front page to the screaming headlines “LSD, BABY / The Inside Story / God’s Secret Agent .0025/ by Tim Leary / The Man Who Knows.” This story covers the two-page spread at the center of the issue’s 20 pages. Leary opens with “Rosemary and I had been waiting for him for five hours . . . He started a three hour rap about energy, electronics, drugs, politics, the nature of God and the place of man in the Divine systsem. Laughing at his own brilliance, turning himself on, turning us on, Einsteinian physics and Buddhist philosophy translated into the fast, right, straight rhythm of acid rock hip.” The description of Leary’s encounter with “.25” take off from this introduction; near the end, Leary notes that “the alchemist-shaman-wizard-medicine man is always a fringe figure . .. In order to listen to the shuttling, whispering ancient language of energy (long faint sighs across the milennia) you have to shut out the noise of the market place.” This is the Timothy Leary we knew when the world was still young. Among the other stories on the inside pages are “KMPX Walkout Beautiful,” “What It Takes to Be a Guerilla,” and, perhaps a perennial, “Victims Claim Frame in Vigil Pot House Bust.” Another article, “Rossman Raps Rubin,” takes us back to the days when those marvelous figures Mike Rossman and Jerry Rubin helped guide Berkeley in new directions. The lead article on page 5, “Convention in Expert Hands,” describes the founding convention of the Peace and Freedom Party in Richmond, CA, with news of the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, the Panthers, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver. Page 17 carries a column by the regular Barb contributor Dr. Eugene Schonfeld (“Dr. HipPocrates”) that examines, among other topics, intercourse during pregnancy. The two pages of personal ads, interesting as always, include “MARATHON Encounter Group positive growth experience thru sensory awareness, psychodrama gestalt encountering, creative imagination.” The newspaper will be sent folded via USPS first-class mail for $3.00 within the United States. Insurance is available at cost ($1.75 up to $50, $2.25 up to $100, $2.75 up to $200). International shipping is possible, though of course at higher rates. Thanks for taking the time to admire this bit of American cultural history.