Tuesday's Child (newspaper)

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Tuesday's Child
TypeWeekly underground newspaper; later biweekly
FormatTabloid
Founder(s)Jerry Applebaum, Alex Apostolides, and others
Editor-in-chiefChester Anderson
FoundedNovember 11, 1969; 54 years ago (1969-11-11) in Los Angeles
Political alignmentNew Left
Ceased publicationApril 1970
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California

Tuesday's Child was a short-lived counterculture underground newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, in 1969–1970. Self-described on its masthead as "An ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult & underground," it was founded by Los Angeles Free Press reporter Jerry Applebaum, Alex Apostolides, and a group of Freep staffers who left en masse after disagreements with Art Kunkin to found their own paper.[1][2] Tuesday's Child was edited by Chester Anderson.[a]

Overview[edit]

Along with the usual underground paper staples of drugs, rock and roll, and New Left radical politics, Tuesday's Child devoted a good deal of space to the occult, with a number of issues printing arcane and obscure material by the occultist Aleister Crowley.[4] The paper "is also notable for its decidedly queer stance and heady admixture of sex, politics, and mysticism. Its pages often feature[d] first-hand reportage of happenings in the Greater L.A. queer community ('GAY POWER STUNS HOLLYWOOD', Volume 1, Issue 5) as well as copious inches to kinky classifieds, personals, and erotic horoscopes."[5]

Also part of the founding group was "a bunch of angry beat poets" who published "socialist poetry" in the paper.[6]

Never achieving the success or circulation of its crosstown rival, the Free Press, Tuesday's Child quickly attained a degree of notoriety in and out of the underground with its coverage of the Charles Manson case.[6] One issue featured an image of a crucified Charles Manson on the cover, and another issue had a photograph of Manson on the cover proclaiming him, "Man of the Year."[7][8][9][6]

Publication history[edit]

The first issue of Tuesday's Child was published on November 11, 1969, and published weekly (later biweekly) from an office in Hollywood in a tabloid format, selling for 25 cents.

The paper ceased publication in April 1970, and Jerry Applebaum went north and joined the Berkeley Tribe until it closed in 1972.

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Tuesday’s Child: Volume 1 (New York: Inpatient Press, 2020), 170 pp.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Several scenes in Puppies, Chester Anderson's journal/memoir of sexual excess in the 1960s, were set in the offices of Tuesday's Child, where he slept in a back room while putting out the paper and cruising the nearby Sunset Strip.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ McMillian, John. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 234.
  2. ^ Leamer, Laurence. The Paper Revolutionaries (Simon & Schuster, 1972), p. 56.
  3. ^ Anderson, Chester (as John Valentine). Puppies (Entwhistle Books, 1979). ISBN 9780960142835.
  4. ^ Letter from Grady McMurtry to Gerald Yorke dated March 8, 1970. Thelema Lodge Calendar, August 1994.
  5. ^ Minestrone, Octavio. Tuesday’s Child: Volume 1, Printed Matter website. Retrieved Dec. 26, 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Leib, Rebecca. "The story of how in the wake of the Manson murders, a bunch of local beat poets founded a not-so-family-friendly newspaper with a Satanic inclination," Los Angeleno (July 3, 2020).
  7. ^ Manson, Charles. Manson in His Own Words (Grove Press, 1994), p. 26. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
  8. ^ Bugliosi, Vincent with Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter (W.W. Norton, 2001), p. 297. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
  9. ^ Peck, Abe. Uncovering the Sixties (Pantheon, 1985), p. 227.

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