Peninsula Observer
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The Peninsula Observer was an underground newspaper
Underground press
The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....

 published in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...

 from July 7, 1967 to November 1969. Co-founded by Barry Greenberg and David Ransom, it was produced by Stanford
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 graduate students opposed to the war in Vietnam, along with community members and others. Circulation was about 5000 copies.

Early issues were published as the Midpeninsula Observer. It became the Peninsula Observer with the issue of August 12–26, 1968 (vol. 2, no. 4). Editorship rotated among a group including Randy Bonner, Marlene Charyn (Stanford University Press editor and wife of Jerome Charyn
Jerome Charyn
Jerome Charyn is an award-winning American author. With nearly 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life...

), Peter Dolinger, David Shen, Maureen Kulbaitis, and Joanne Wallace. Published roughly biweekly for two years, it printed its last issue in November 1969.

Its articles attacking the Stanford Research Institute helped to bring about the severing of the University's ties with the Institute in 1970.
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