In its heyday, the early '70s, the Liberation News Service provided subjective, primary reporting to as many as 800 subscribers, which included collegiate and underground papers and individuals.
They were, as the name suggests, an anti-establishment, radical left-wing organization that covered public events from a progressive point of view.
This LNS article about indictments following a deadly shooting at a peace protest in Berkeley ran in the Denver Chinook. It contains a curious comment from the then-infamous Alameda County Sheriff Frank Madigan. It's not clear this far removed from these events what the "sickest operations of government" Madigan is referring to.
The LNS -- which some described as the Associated Press for the underground -- were arguing what Madigan and his officers dd to trespassing do-gooders, with the full authorization of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, was itself pretty sick.
The Liberation News Service, which was launched in D.C. in 1967, ceased operations in 1981.
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