The Washington Free Press was a biweekly radical underground newspaper published in Washington, DC, beginning in 1966, when it was founded by representatives of the five colleges in Washington as a community paper for local Movement people.Peck, Abe. Uncovering the Sixties, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), p. 78. It was an early member of the Underground Press Syndicate. Starting in December, 1967 they shared a three-story house in northwest Washington with the Liberation News Service, the Washington Draft Resistance Union, and a local chapter of the anti-draft group Resistance. A print shop was in the basement, and other activist groups used the space and got their mail there.Wilkerson, Cathy. Flying Close to the Sun, (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), p. 173. The paper's original founders and editors included Michael Grossman, Arthur Grosman and former State Department computer programmer William Blum, but the staff went through many changes and by 1969 nobody on the paper was even acquainted with any of the original founders."The underground press: a special report" by John Burks. Rolling Stone, Oct. 4, 1969, p. 11-33.
