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  Ramparts (magazine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramparts was an American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975.
The magazine was an early opponent of the Vietnam War.
Former Ramparts Managing Editor, Assistant Publisher and Religion Editor, James F. Colaianni, a Catholic Lay Theologian, is the author of Married Priests and Married Nuns, The Catholic Left, and is publisher of Voicings Publications, which provides resource material to the preaching clergy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramparts_Magazine   (471 words)

  
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When Ramparts magazine published material that the Phone Company felt was detrimental to its well-being, it employed flmail, threats, and coercion to halt publication.
Ramparts did not tell its readers about the $500 to $1,000 fines and the year in prison awaiting those who where caught.
In a memo, Bell directed its employees that the Ramparts article should be "collected by whatever means necessary to effect their removal from newsstands and magazine racks in public places," and that "the exact method for collection...
www.textfiles.com /phreak/security.phk   (2395 words)

  
 TIME.com: A Bomb in Every Issue -- Jan. 6, 1967 -- Page 1
Ramparts magazine greeted the New Year with a straight left jab to the public jaw.
In November, the magazine contended that the unrelated deaths of thirteen people vaguely connected with the events in Dallas indicated that conspirators were trying to cover up; in this issue, it argues that there were three assassins, two firing from the rear and one from the front.
Ramparts was founded in 1962 as a liberal Roman Catholic quarterly by Edward Keating, 41, an articulate San Franciscan with a sizable inheritance.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,843165,00.html   (740 words)

  
 Ramparts Magazine - SourceWatch
Ramparts Magazine (1962-1975) was "slick, printed on heavy, shiny stock with classy graphics that looked good on a Danish Modern coffee table.
Ramparts was the only New Left magazine that could penetrate middle-class households.
In February 1967, Ramparts magazine, a left-wing publication, revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the National Student Association as a front group in the battle to win the allegiance of young student leaders from Marxist- and KGB-controlled fronts.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ramparts_Magazine   (1317 words)

  
 Ramparts magazine
Ramparts was a American political and literary magazine which appeared between 1962 and 1975.
Ramparts also published Che Guevara's diaries with an introduction by Fidel Castro and ran the prison diaries of Eldridge Cleaver (later republished as Soul on Ice).
Contributors to the magazine included Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Seymour Hersh, James Ridgeway, Pete Hamill, and Abbie Hoffman.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/ra/ramparts_magazine.html   (198 words)

  
 Secrets
He transferred responsibility for the Ramparts operation away from Osborn to a key CIA operative whose identity would not be known for years.
On the same day he got the IRS tax data on Ramparts, Ober circulated a memo discussing "certain operational recommendations." While the CIA continues to withhold the full story of what Ober had in mind, this much has been discovered: news stories meant to discredit Ramparts were to be planted.
Ramparts is the magazine that exposed the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency has been financing the National Student Association, which in turn has worked for several years to prevent the International Union of Students from dominating the youth of the world.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/mackenzie-secrets.html   (3408 words)

  
 Democracy's Debt to Our Fringe Press -- May 2, 1995
The Nation magazine continued its century-old tradition of criticism from the left.
There was Ramparts magazine, with which I was associated.
Ramparts was a once-quirky Catholic literary quarterly that publisher Ed Keating financed by selling off his shopping centers.
www.robertscheer.com /1_natcolumn/95_columns/050295.htm   (624 words)

  
 Edward Keating -- Ramparts founder
Edward Keating, who founded a small Catholic magazine called Ramparts that became one of the loudest and most raucous voices of the tumultuous '60s, died April 2 at Stanford Medical Center after a battle with pneumonia.
Keating's idealism was his driving force, leading to the founding of Ramparts, his legal defense of Black Panther leader Huey Newton, his work with other Panthers, including the hiring of Eldridge Cleaver as a writer, and his opposition to the war in Vietnam.
Ramparts went on, in its own wacky way, branching out in its zealous mission of criticism by writing not only about the church, but about all the centers of power in the United States -- particularly the federal government.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/10/BA107349.DTL   (773 words)

  
 Biography: William W. Turner
Ober had tried in vain to imagine a way to stop Ramparts from publishing the NSA piece, and it was he who conceived the idea of staging the preemptive press conference by the student leaders that Hinckle finessed with the full-page newspaper ads.
Ober persuaded the IRS to send over tax data on the magazine and its personnel, and one of his analysts thought he had found a discrepancy (although there is no record of what was done about it).
It said that an editor of Ramparts magazine had come to Prague and held a long, secret session with officers of the Communist-controlled International Union of Students." The intent obviously was to imply that the magazine was communist-influenced, which was comic to anyone who knew the editors.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKturnerW.htm   (4843 words)

  
 Guardian | Edward Keating
The rise and fall of the American radical magazine Ramparts involved only a few years of the life of its founder, Edward Keating, who has died aged 77, but it changed his life and his faith.
The magazine became a monthly and developed a secular approach and an editorial stance that unequivocally supported both causes, while maintaining a crisp and credible appearance.
The magazine, which reached a circulation of 400,000 at its peak, closed in 1975.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4660962-103684,00.html   (787 words)

  
 Coleman Mistake of the Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Coleman claims Mike Sweeney wrote a Ramparts magazine article in 1970 that showed unexplained access to a person who burned the Bank of America in Isla Vista, California.
Also shown is the portion of the San Francisco Chronicle article of February 27, 1970, which was the source of the quote.
Also shown is the masthead for Ramparts magazine in the November, 1970 issue, showing the names of editors Peter Collier and David Horowitz, who were the actual authors of the article they put Sweeney's name on, much to his chagrin.
www.colemanhoax.com /proof6.htm   (123 words)

  
 [CTRL] Rolling Stone Magazine Was Bribed
magazine and numerous other popular publications, is currently in the public relations staff of the Arica Institute, a popular psychic growth movement.
Ramparts magazine, which took no Xerox bribes, has since folded.
In 1967—after being fired by Ramparts Magazine for his lack of writing skill and his anti-communist political beliefs-Wenner borrowed $1500 from the jazz critic of the Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle, Ralph Gleason.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg02404.html   (1769 words)

  
 Irish Abroad - Irish American News
Nowadays Hinckle is the best-known writer at the San Francisco Examiner, the daily newspaper that was recently sold by the Hearst family to a local businessman.
Writing about Ramparts, a local reviewer stated, “Founded by a rich convert, Ramparts magazine was envisaged as a monthly church-and-secular-affairs magazine for moderately hip Catholic lay people.
Nowadays some would claim that Ramparts was the greatest magazine of its time, an investigative tool long before Woodward and Bernstein that helped define the new era of journalism.
www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/editperiscope/ArniesTheMan.asp   (680 words)

  
 The COLOSSUS OF RHODEY: Getting philosophical
everyone recognized that Ramparts' success or failure depended on its editorial product, and its editors had to be the governing body of the magazine, which ipso facto made them more equal than the rest.
The revolution's pecking order had again shifted to the left (as it was always bound to), and we remained unable to overcome the view that Ramparts was part of the power structure that needed to be overthrown.
They saw Ramparts as their gravy train rather than their cause, and refused any cuts at all.
colossus.mu.nu /archives/146948.php   (1762 words)

  
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Ramparts editor David Horowitz had put together a team consisting of labor journalist Paul Jacobs, leftist entrepreneur Richard Parker, and leftist millionaire Adam Hochschild to take over Ramparts from its retiring editors, Horowitz and Peter Collier.
On a global level, the magazine reserves its harshest condemnations for the U.S. and Israel, and is staunchly supportive of Marxist regimes like Fidel Castro's Cuba.
The Mother Jones magazine and website are owned by the non-profit, tax-exempt Foundation for National Progress (FNP), a 501(c)(3) "public-interest media organization." FNP has been supported by other left-leaning foundations, among them the
www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6959   (413 words)

  
 Unauthorized Portraits: The Drawings of Edward Sorel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
magazine in the 1960s, Sorel adapted the ancient satiric device of dehumanizing one's victims by giving them animal characteristics.
This early series helped establish Sorel's reputation as one of the preeminent satirists of his generation.
magazine mentioned the bestiary in its 1968 profile of Sorel, which cited him among the best of the new platoon of caricaturists "fast moving up."
www.npg.si.edu /exh/sorel/aviary.htm   (68 words)

  
 The National Student Association Scandal
The 1967 investigations, initially prompted by the editors of Ramparts magazine and authorized by various liberal-minded figures in corporate media and government, brought forth some of the most fully-disclosed operations regarding CIA influence over academia and a host of other domestic groups.
It was an SDS member, Michael Wood, who took the story to Ramparts magazine after being told of the relationship in 1966 by then NSA president Phil Sherburne.
According to the Ramparts article and subsequent reports by the New York Times, U.S. intelligence was providing the NSA as much as $400,000 a year.
www.cia-on-campus.org /nsa/nsa2.html   (1625 words)

  
 "Ramparts magazine, to the editors of" Correspondence: Thomas Merton Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Thomas Merton's Correspondence with: Ramparts magazine, to the editors of
He agrees with their reasons for dissent, but questions whether their hard-line methods of rebellion are effective or whether they close down dialogue.
Ramparts was a literary and political magazine running from 1962-1975, originally a Catholic literary quarterly, that took liberal positions on many issues of the day, such as opposing the Vietnam War.
www.merton.org /Research/Correspondence/z615f.html   (272 words)

  
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Subject: The Garrison Probe Keywords: William W. Turner article in January, 1968 Ramparts Magazine Date: 4 Aug 92 23:08:19 GMT Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com This is an article, written by William W. Turner that appeared in Ramparts magazine.
One block away, at 640 Magazine Street, is the William B. Reily Co. a coffee firm where Oswald was employed that pivotal summer.
The microdot can be inserted in an innocuous letter or magazine and mailed, or left in a "dead drop" -- a prearranged location for the deposit and pickup of messages.
www.wf.net /~biles/jfk/ramparts.txt   (9424 words)

  
 CIA & Freedom of Information Act / The Cover-up Begins / You Expose Us, We Spy on You excerpted from the book ...
To "run down" a domestic news publication because it had exposed questionable practices of the CIA was dearly in violation of the I947 National Security Act's prohibition on domestic operations and meant the CIA eventually would have to engage in a cover-up.
Ober's job was to coordinate SOG and expand his Ramparts investigation to encompass the entire antiwar underground press, numbering some five hundred newspapers.
The Ramparts Task Force had been "high priority." MHCHAOS was above that: "operational priority in the field is in the highest category, ranking with Soviet and Chinese" operations.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /CIA/FOIA_SecretsCIA.html   (3241 words)

  
 History of the Internet: First Computer Bulletin Board System (Chapter 3 Excerpt)
In November 1978 Christensen and Suess publish an article in Byte magazine, describing CBBS and outlining the technology for devising virtual bulletin boards.
In June 1972 Ramparts, a radical magazine in California, was closed down by police at the request of the telephone company.
Mistakenly believing they were covered by the First Amendment, Ramparts published material that had long existed in the geek world: designs for a "blue box." A blue box is a mechanical device able to mimic a 2600 hertz tone, allowing the user to access long-distance lines for free.
www.historyoftheinternet.com /chap3.html   (926 words)

  
 TIME.com: Fall of the Archangel -- May 5, 1967 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Muckraking Ramparts magazine has uncovered dark plots all over the place —in Dallas, in the CIA, in Michigan State University.
Keating, the magazine's financial archangel, charged his opponents with "fiscal irresponsibility" and an "inability to practice budgetary controls." Circulation of the last issue was 228,730, more than half newsstand, but the magazine is still losing money at the rate of $350,000 a year.
Not only that, charged a Ramparts man, he even wanted to equip the gumshoe with a hollow heel containing a compass—so that he could find his way back again.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,899517,00.html   (659 words)

  
 Books & Magazines
Printed in the USA in early 1964, this magazine is filled with everything Beatles.
The centerfold section is missing which contained the main article of the magazine.
The magazine measures approx 6" x 8.25" and is in terrific condition!
www.beatlebay.com /books_&_magazines.htm   (2014 words)

  
 LSD & Hallucinogens Literature
One of the earliest LSD features I've found in a national magazine, this is pre-Huxley and pre- pretty much everything else, dealing exclusively with the psychotomimetic aspects of the drug, suggesting that this may help us understand schizophrenics.
This line of research continued throughout the 1950s but was ultimately abandoned when it was shown that the similarities between lysergics and schizophrenia were superficial and non-conclusive.
Early exposé in a national magazine; interesting commentary on psychotherapeutical tryouts with LSD around America.
www.lysergia.com /FeedYourHead/lsdMagazines.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Ramparts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Founded by a rich convert, Ramparts magazine was envisaged as a monthly Church-and-secular-affairs magazine for moderately hip Catholic lay people.
By a twist of fate, the magazine fell into the hands of journalist (and former Catholic-school problem child) Warren Hinckle, who became its editor.
According to the revisionist line of former editors Peter Collier and David Horowitz, the magazine fell into a maelstrom of radical chic: glamorizing Leninist dictators, falling for crank assassination theories, and building up a Black Panther Party consisting of common criminals.
www.namebase.org /sources/CY.html   (206 words)

  
 Ramparts Rightward -NRA
abstract: Horowitz became an editor of the prestigious Ramparts magazine, literary flagship of the American student Left in the sixties.
To the conservatives who thought that the sixties were really bad, Horowitz today furnishes a needed corrective: they were not merely bad, they were much worse than you ever thought.
Horowitz became an editor of the prestigious Ramparts magazine, literary flagship of the American student Left in the sixties.
www.natreformassn.org /statesman/98/rampart.html   (1030 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Black Murder Inc. by David Horowitz
Long after I had gone, too, I watched the Center operate illegally, without filing proper tax reports, and while Huey and Elaine were diverting large sums of money (received as government grants) to themselves and their gunmen to keep them in fancy cars and clothes and, when necessary, out of jail.
A New York Times Magazine profile of Elaine ("A Black Panther's Long Journey"), treated her as a new feminist heroine and prompted View and Style sections of newspapers in major cities across the nation to follow suit.
She had come to work for the Party at the behest of David Horowitz, who had been editor of Ramparts magazine and a onetime close friend of Eldridge Cleaver.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3477   (8533 words)

  
 Robert Scheer -- Biography
Between 1964 and 1969, he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine.
From 1976 to 1993, he served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, where he wrote articles on such diverse topics as the Soviet Union, arms control, national politics and the military.
He is currently a contributing editor at The Times, as well as a contributing editor for The Nation magazine.
www.robertscheer.com /6_biography   (410 words)

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