Robert Shaw

September, 1965

Purple Passages from plays by Edward Albee and poems by LeRoi Jones, uncensored interviews with dope pushers, prostitutes and homosexuals, critiques of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, classes in astronomy and the stock market, music from Bach to bluegrass--that's a random sampling of the divertisements afforded to devotees of FM by California's Pacifica Foundation, an audacious broadcasting enterprise headed by a 46-year-old ex-electronics manufacturer and English professor named Hallock Hoffman...