David Kerr Research Materials on Liberation News Service and the Alternative Press
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Creation of David Kerr Research Materials on Liberation News Service and the Alternative Press
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1 archives box and 1 cassette storage box
Kerr, David
Biographical History for: David Kerr Research Materials on Liberation News Service and the Alternative Press
Biographical Note David Kerr was associate professor of mass communications at Hampshire College from 1972 to 2003. He has a BA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and MAs from Vanderbilt University and Indiana University. He worked as a reporter and editor and taught courses in journalism and the history of the American press. His educational interests include the role of the press in the debate over imperialism, travel and safari writings, issues in popular culture, and cultural studies. He retired from Hampshire in 2003. (Source: Hampshire College Catalog and Course Guide, 2002-2003)
Scope and Contents of the Collection Background articles, interview tapes and transcripts, and other materials for David Kerr's research on the alternative press in the United States, with particular focus on Liberation News Service, an alternative press service started by Marshall Bloom and Ray Mungo in 1967.
Underground press--United States
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Bloom, Marshall, 1944-1969
Wasserman, Harvey
Isenberg, Elliott, 1945-
Feinstein, Mark
Young, Allen, 1941-
Liberation News Service (Montague, Mass.)
Liberation News Service (New York, N.Y.)
Liberation News Service (Washington, D.C.)
series
Series 1: Background Articles
Creation of Series 1: Background Articles
Time of Creation of Series 1: Background Articles
Photocopies of published articles on the alternative press.
Deaver Collins, paper on LNS 1973
Marshall Bloom (retro) 1973
UPS/APS 1971 - 1973
Related New Journalism 1971 Jun
High school unrest 1969 Feb
LNS as communes - Melville article 1972
LNS - Hentoff article 1972
Movement - UGP bibliography 1969 Mar
Law and UGP 1970
LNS Operation 1968-1969
Reviews; LNS - UGP books 1970-1972
General Crit - UGP 1969-1973
Series 2: Interview Tapes and Transcripts
Creation of Series 2: Interview Tapes and Transcripts
Time of Creation of Series 2: Interview Tapes and Transcripts
This series includes eleven audiocassettes and two reel tapes of Kerr's interviews with people formerly associated with Liberation News Service.
Jessica and Harvey - LNS (audiotape reel 1 of 2) n.d.
Jessica and Harvey - LNS (audiotape reel 2 of 2) n.d.
Harvey Wasserman interview 1975 Jan 23
Elliot Isenberg interview 1977 Feb 4
Mark Feinstein Interview 1977 Feb 16
Interview notes n.d.
Audiocassette tape: Women and Theatre - side 1 / Jeanne Fortin - side 2 1974 Apr 23
Audiocassette tape: Harvey Wasserman, LNS 1975 Jan 23
Audiocassette tape: Allen Young, North Orange, Mass., partial 1977 May 4
Audiocassette tape: Allen Young; in N. Orange, Mass. at Octagon House 1977 May 5
Audiocassette tape: Andrew Marx, Howard Epstein; LNS 1977 Feb 28
Audiocassette tape: Marx; Reel #2 1977 Feb 28
Audiocassette tape: Elliot Isenberg; Bloom's roommate and LSE
Audiocassette tape: Elliot Isenberg; Bloom's roommate
Audiocassette tape: Feinstein interview #2 1977 Feb 16
Audiocassette tape: Feinstein interview #3 & #4 1977 Feb 16
Series 3: Notes and Other Background Material
Creation of Series 3: Notes and Other Background Material
Time of Creation of Series 3: Notes and Other Background Material
This series includes a lengthy 1972 document entitled "Liberation News Service: Bourgeois or Revolutionary Journalism?" which is an internal critique written by two former LNS staff members; also a small amount of other notes, printed matter and correspondence.
LNS Internal Critique by Rosa Borenstein and Alan Howard 1972 Jan 10
Note (Unknown person) with 2 issues of Great Speckled Bird 1975 Jan-Mar
Notes - History of LNS n.d.
Microfilm Index - Alternative press publications n.d.
Congressional report (hearings on the Internal Security Act) 1974 July