SPJ Northern California Chapter Benefit

eBay auction

Aug 20, 2006

Journalism Memorabilia, from the Civil War to Firing
of Angela Davis, Go Up For Auction on eBay Aug. 20

SAN FRANCISCO -- Original front pages from California newspapers trumpeting the 1906 San Francisco earthquake disaster and memorabilia from other significant news events in history will go up for auction on eBay on Aug. 20, 2006.

The Northern California chapter of the Society Professional Journalists is including several important historical relics of California's journalism history to support its efforts protecting our First Amendment rights in its auction.

These include a preliminary report on the Berkeley Free Speech controversy to the Los Angeles Free Press' Page One coverage of Angela Davis' firing from the University of California.

The memorabilia include in chronological order:

July 2, 1863 The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg Mississippi, daily news of a southern town during the Civil War.

April 18, 1906, The Stockton Record, Extra -- Third Edition.

Headline: "EARTHQUAKE -- San Francisco is being consumed by an awful fire"
    
April 18, 1906, The Evening Mail, Extra -- headline: "EARTHQUAKE CAUSES DISASTROUS HOLOCAUST"

April 19, 1906 the Stockton record, Thursday 10 a.m., headline:"THE GREAT FIRE STILL BURNS"

The Berkeley Free-Speech Controversy, a preliminary report, by political science students at University of California Berkeley

September 26 to October 2, 1969, Los Angeles Free Press, headline: "REGENTS BREAK UC RULES, FIRE ANGELA DAVIS"

May 16, 1975 the San Francisco Chronicle, an emergency edition, headline: "*TEAMSTERS CALL OFF PICKETS"

2005 ANG Newspapers, political cartoonist Steven Lait, depiction of President George W. Bush with his fingers in his ears. Caption reads: "The president finally lifts a
finger in reaction to the assault weapons ban expiring."

For more information contact:
Francine Brevetti
curiouser80@hotmail.com
or 510.208.6416