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David Kerr was associate professor of mass communications at Hampshire College from 1972 to 2003. He has a BA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and MAs from Vanderbilt University and Indiana University. He worked as a reporter and editor and taught courses in journalism and the history of the American press. His educational interests include the role of the press in the debate over imperialism, travel and safari writings, issues in popular culture, and cultural studies. He retired from Hampshire in 2003.
Background articles, interview tapes and transcripts, and other materials for David Kerr's research on the alternative press in the United States, with particular focus on Liberation News Service, an alternative press service started by Marshall Bloom and Ray Mungo in 1967.
This collection is organized into three series:
There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
[Identification of item], in David Kerr Research Materials on Liberation News Service and the Alternative Press [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library.
The collection was received from the Hampshire College Library in March 2004.
Photocopies of published articles on the alternative press.
This series includes eleven audiocassettes and two reel tapes of Kerr's interviews with people formerly associated with Liberation News Service.
This series includes a lengthy 1972 document entitled "Liberation News Service: Bourgeois or Revolutionary Journalism?" which is an internal critique written by two former LNS staff members; also a small amount of other notes, printed matter and correspondence.