Measures 8-17/32" X 11", 64 pp plus covers, b&w illustrations, Volume 1, Number 3 (May-June 1964), published by Fact Magazine Inc. (NY).
While published concurrently with the better-known RAMPARTS MAGAZINE, FACT MAGAZINE regrettably only lasted a few issues (from January 1964 through October 1967), and was a victim of its own success, having published in 1964 a scathing article about Senator BARRY GOLDWATER (who was at that time the Republican candidate for president of the United States), in which a large number of American psychologists had diagnosed Senator Goldwater as being mentally unstable. Goldwater sued RALPH GINZBURG, the editor of FACT, and won, nearly bankrupting Ginzburg in the process. (Ginzburg had earlier been convicted of violating obscenity laws for the publication of a previous short-lived magazine, entitled EROS, for which Ginzburg was eventually sentenced to serve 5 years in prison. He was released after serving 8 months.) While RAMPARTS had deeper pockets (and color photographs), FACT had a fragile vulnerability, which doomed it to an early demise; but collectors of 1960s liberal muckraking magazines should definitely make an effort to hunt down the entire, short-lived run of FACT MAGAZINE.
Contents:
S. O. B. Detroit (American automobiles as death traps) -- by RALPH GINZBURG
The Rebirth Of The KU KLUX KLAN -- by ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Ho Hum, Come To The Fair (1964 WORLD'S FAIR In New York) -- by HOWARD OZMON, Ph. D
The Misleading Advertisements Of BAYER ASPIRIN (Truth In Advertising) -- by LOUIS LASAGNA, M. D.
My Fight For A Legal Lottery (National Lottery) -- by Rep. PAUL A. FINO
The Day Some Lousy Communist Bastard Tried To Take Over AT&T (Stock Takeover) -- by ROBERT J. MILCH
A Psychoanalytic Study Of Baseball -- by WARREN BOROSON
Seven Days In October (1962 Cuba Missile Crisis) -- by IRVIN DORESS
Catholic Take-Over Of Public Schools (Separation Of Church & State) -- by Rev. GAYLORD BRILEY
LINCOLN And The White Supremacists (ABRAHAM LINCOLN) -- by SHEPHERD RAYMOND
The Free Press: An Obit (Newspapers Compromised) -- by J. DAVID STERN
A Study Of Wife-Swapping In California -- by Drs. EBERHARD W. & PHYLLIS C. KRONHAUSEN
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