A commune calling itself the Kingdom of Endor tried to plan The Great Aspen Freak Festival in the little Colorado town for this July but carelessly announced that 100,000 hippies-could be expected—and that blew the whole thing.
FE Author: John Wilcock
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
NEW YORK—Norman Mailer kicked off his mayorality campaign with a rally at the Village Gate attended by George Plimpton’s party crowd and assorted dilettantes and sycophants. Targets of the evening were the NY Times, which hasn’t been giving Mailer the …
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
“In a rebellion, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end” (Alexis de Tocqueville)… In the north of England there’s been an outbreak of bow-and-arrow “sniping”…
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
Other Scenesman, John Wilcock, has begun one of his frequent around the world trips. This report is filed from Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. We will publish his impressions of his visits to other European and Asian cities as they are received.
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
On Saturday, June 22, a demonstration expressing support for French workers and students was held in front of the office of the French consulate in the First National Building in downtown Detroit.
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968
Millbrook, that renowned dropout shrine in upstate New York, is closed and padlocked, its tribe scattered, its guru Tim Leary now living in Berkeley. And the end of an era was marked last month with a “farewell” party for Uncle …
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
Editors’ Note: We neglected last issue to welcome John Wilcock back to the pages of this newspaper. John was one of the founders of the Village Voice and the East Village Other. He publishes his own paper, Other Scenes which …
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
What RFK’s election would prove is that America is further ahead in its cheerfully cynical acceptance of corruption and back-room deals than had been feared…
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
What a pathetic creature Horseshit Humphreak is; how could anybody with any intelligence take him seriously? Other Scenes wrote (in March 1966): “If vice-stooge HH had the guts to express his own opinions he could be the next president, which—with …
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by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
By the time the narcotics squad pinpointed him last month, Dick Swafford, 28, had probably stashed two or three hundred thousand dollars away in Swiss banks. Once a week he’d leave his home in L.A. and drive to San Diego …