Talk:Los Angeles Free Press
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citation needed on the Nixon censorship.
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"The Staff" now located on Santa Monica Blvd continued publishing weekly with Harlan Ellison articles and interviews with Andy Warhol and others. Just after this happened however, the building in which the Free Press was housed mysteriously burned to the ground in a conflagration the arson investigators termed “remarkable”. The Los Angeles Fire Department took over two hours to respond to the alarm. The cause of the fire has never been determined. Concurrent with this incident was the forced closure of the bookstore of the Free Press at the corner of Fair Oaks and Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, on the grounds of “Health Code violations”; the bookstore sold no food, only printed material.
The newspaper also ran a weekly television column by noted fantast and screenwriter Harlan Ellison. After the Free Press folded, approximately 104 of these columns were published by Ellison in two volumes, The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat. Because of some remarks Ellison made concerning then Vice President Spiro Agnew, the publisher was quietly informed by the Nixon administration that these works were not to be distributed in the United States, although they were freely available at the time in Canada. They were finally distributed in the 1980s by Berkeley Press, with a foreword by Ellison describing the suppression.
