San Francisco Express Times
San Francisco Express Times was a counterculture tabloid underground newspaper edited by Marvin Garson and published weekly in San Francisco, California from January 24, 1968 to March 25, 1969, for a total of 62 issues, covering and promoting radical politics, rock music, arts and progressive culture in the Bay Area.[1] It was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate, and sold for 15 cents.
Marvin Garson was a graduate of the University of California and veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, where he edited an FSM newsletter, Wooden Shoe, along with his wife Barbara Garson. He started the Express Times with co-founder Bob Novick[2] and participation by David Lance Goines, Alice Waters and others. Regular contributors included Todd Gitlin and Greil Marcus.[3] Staff photographers were Jeffrey Blankfort followed by Nacio Jan Brown. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Express Times was one of a number of underground newspapers successfully infiltrated by the FBI, which had a paid informant on the staff.[4]
[edit] Good Times
Starting in April 1969 the San Francisco Express Times changed its name to Good Times, publishing under that title, with a substantially different editorial policy, until August 1972.[5]
One of the editors of Good Times, a resident of the Good Times Commune named Richard Gaikowski (1936–2004), has been identified on a number of web pages as a possible suspect in the unsolved San Francisco Zodiac Killer case, although there is only circumstantial evidence tying him to the case.
[edit] Notes
- ^ About this newspaper: San Francisco Express Times, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, retrieved March 29, 2010
- ^ Glessing, Robert. The Underground Press in America (University Press, 1971), p. 32.
- ^ Applegate, Edd. Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors (Greenwood, 1996), p. 160.
- ^ Armstrong, David. A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America (South End Press, 1981), p. 145.
- ^ About this newspaper: Good Times, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, retrieved March 29, 2010.
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