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Daily Rumor No. 1 [page 2 of 2]
Daily Rumor No. 1 [page 2 of 2]
TitleDaily Rumor No. 1 [page 2 of 2]
Creator[Unknown]
Publisher/Affiliation[Unknown]
Place of PublicationUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date1967
NotesAlternative title: Tired Tirades... Flash

Announces: "This is a living newspaper, use the rest of it to write some news. If you have anything to submit, find us, whoever we are."

Background information: "Eugene Joseph McCarthy -- U.S. senator whose entry into the 1968 race for the Democratic presidential nomination ultimately led President Lyndon B. Johnson to drop his bid for reelection... Although in 1964 he had supported the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (which gave the president broad powers to wage the Vietnam War), by 1967 McCarthy had become an outspoken critic of the war." (Eugene J. McCarthy. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved February 24, 2004, from Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=50840 )

Background information: Boyd Grafmyre turned the Eagles Temple auditorium (of the Fraternal Order of Eagles) "into a major venue on the national rock circuit, " whose shows were often advertised with psychedelic concert posters by John Moehring. (Crowley, Walt. Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 81)

Background information: In 1967, Seattle police invoked an antiquated ordinance banning arc lamps as a way to deny permits for light shows. However, the ban was reversed on May 4 of the same year by the Seattle City Council under pressure from councilman Charles Carroll and an ACLU law suit. (Crowley 68-70, 241)
Intended PurposeNews
Opinion

Issue AreaFreedom of speech
Subjects (LCTGM)Freedom of speech--Washington (State)-Seattle
Subjects (LCSH)Daily Rumor (Seattle, Wash.)
Protest literature
Seattle (Wash.)--Popular culture
Seattle (Wash.)--Politics and government Underground newspapers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Geographic CoverageUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionVietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
Digital ID NumberVTN062
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionDS559.62 W3 Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection, Box 6/6
Object TypeFlier
Physical Description27.5 x 21.5 cm
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from original text at 400 dpi in color, saved in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2004.
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