Raymond Mungo was born in 1946 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. By 1970, he was able to write a book titled Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service from which we have reprinted excerpts. Famous Long Ago really begins when Mungo and Marshall Bloom decided to start an underground press service, "because they had nothing else to do.” The excerpts recount Mungo’s side trip to Czechoslovakia to meet with the Vietcong and how in the third week of its existence, LNS (Liberation News Service) saw its material on the siege of the Pentagon printed in whole or in part in more than 100 newspapers.

Ray has continued to write books and articles, has lived on a Vermont commune farm, written software and screenplays, owned a small press and bookstore in Seattle, and, more recently, has served as a social worker in the L.A. area, tending to AIDS patients and the severely mentally ill.

These excerpts are from Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service by Raymond Mungo, Beacon Paperback 360‑Mass Communications, 1970.

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