Kansas City Remembers Westport Trucker

An old school tribute to alternative publishing that's mostly sentimental . . . Here's a worthwhile trip down memory lane and Kansas City's olds school glory days of print media: 

"Chuck Haddix’s former title at the library is Curator of Marr Sound Archives in Special Collections, but he’s better known around town as Kansas City’s premier cultural historian, the host of a well-loved radio show and the author of a biography about Charlie Parker. One of Haddix’s projects at the library was an attempt to assemble the only complete collection of Kansas City’s earliest and most notorious under-ground newspaper, the Westport Trucker. The Trucker, which was published between 1968 and 1974, influenced an entire generation—including Haddix himself."

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70s-era underground newspaper Westport Trucker gets second life in UMKC special collection

KC culture makers of the hippie era are banding together to find and preserve copies of the wildly influential underground newspaper Westport Trucker.