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Photo by Alan Copeland for Berkeley Barb (1969)

Photo by Alan Copeland for Berkeley Barb (1969)

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05/15/69 - Bloody Thursday

05/15/69 - Bloody Thursday

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Rat Subterranean News (via Berkeley Barb, 1969)

Rat Subterranean News (via Berkeley Barb, 1969)

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Berkeley Barb (1969) Brother James Rector died 10:12 Monday night in a Berkeley hospital—murdered by the Alameda County pigs in the name of justice, martyred in the cause of PEOPLE’S PARK. James Rector was shot in the back on Bloody Thursday, from 30 feet with a .12 gauge magnum shotgun loaded with double ought buckshots. A chunk of police lead the size of a .38 slug lodged in his heart, causing death. This government has turned its weapons of war upon its own children, its own students, and has gunned them down indiscriminately in a street protest. The police version of the shooting states that Rector was on a fire escape of Granma Bookstore ready to heave a chunk of concrete at the cops in the street. Police fired upon him they say, and he fell to the pavement below. At least three witnesses termed this description, “A LIE.” Click here for the article

Berkeley Barb (1969)

Brother James Rector died 10:12 Monday night in a Berkeley hospital—murdered by the Alameda County pigs in the name of justice, martyred in the cause of PEOPLE’S PARK.

James Rector was shot in the back on Bloody Thursday, from 30 feet with a .12 gauge magnum shotgun loaded with double ought buckshots. A chunk of police lead the size of a .38 slug lodged in his heart, causing death.

This government has turned its weapons of war upon its own children, its own students, and has gunned them down indiscriminately in a street protest.

The police version of the shooting states that Rector was on a fire escape of Granma Bookstore ready to heave a chunk of concrete at the cops in the street. Police fired upon him they say, and he fell to the pavement below.

At least three witnesses termed this description, “A LIE.”

Click here for the article

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power structure

power structure

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Female Commandos. Berkeley Tribe (1970)

Female Commandos. Berkeley Tribe (1970)

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Photo by Stephen Shames for Berkeley Tribe (1970)

Photo by Stephen Shames for Berkeley Tribe (1970)

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Andy Warhol’s Bike Boy premieres in the Bay Area, 1968.

Andy Warhol’s Bike Boy premieres in the Bay Area, 1968.

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Dick Gregory, weighing in at less than 100 pounds because of anti-war fasts, comes down heavy on cop outs to Democrats. Berkeley Barb (1968)

Dick Gregory, weighing in at less than 100 pounds because of anti-war fasts, comes down heavy on cop outs to Democrats.

Berkeley Barb (1968)

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Buffy Sainte-Marie at the Berkeley Community Theatre in 1968

Buffy Sainte-Marie at the Berkeley Community Theatre in 1968

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