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]
Type | Weekly underground newspaper; later biweekly |
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Format | Tabloid |
Founder(s) | Jerry Applebaum, Alex Apostolides, and others |
Editor-in-chief | Chester Anderson |
Founded | November 11, 1969Los Angeles | in
Political alignment | New Left |
Ceased publication | April 1970 |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
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]
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.