"usually with 8-20 full-time participants or staff at any one time." By 1972, LNS was garnering support from well-known journalists and activists, as documented in a letter signed by I.F. Stone, Jack Newfield, Nat Hentoff, and William M. Kunstler published in the New York Review of Books. In an appeal for funds, the signers praised the investigative work of LNS, noting that it had "grown from a mimeoed sheet distributed to ten newspapers to a printed 20-page packet of articles and graphics mailed to nearly 800 subscribers twice a week." In 1969 LNS published a long essay co-authored by Thorne Dreyer and Victoria Smith, titled "The Movement and the New Media," which was considered to be the first serious journalistic portrait of the increasingly powerful underground press phenomenon. Dreyer also wrote extensively about the growing repression of underground papers throughout the country. Dissolution Throughout the 1970s, with the end of the Vietnam War and the decline of the New Left, LNS dwindled along with the rapidly disappearing underground press. Reduced to serving only 150 newspapers, the LNS collective decided to close operations in August 1981. Archives LNS records are archived variously in the Contemporary Culture Collection of Temple University Libraries, the Archive of Social Change of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Library, Interference Archive, and the Archives & Special Collections at Amherst College; its photographs are archived at New York University's Tamiment Library. See also Alternative news agency List of underground newspapers of the 1960s counterculture Notes Further reading Armstrong, David. A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America (Boston: South End Press, 1981), pp. 105–107. Wachsberger, Ken, ed. Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press (Incredible Librarian Books, 1993) Azenphony Press External links Liberation News Service archive LNS packet #197 (Sept. 25, 1969) at the Liberation News Service archive LNS photograph collection at Tamiment Library LNS records, 1969–1981, at the Contemporary Culture Collection of Temple University Libraries. Liberation News Service (Famous Long Ago Archives) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Library Archive of Social Change Marshall Bloom Alternative Press Collection in the Archives & Special Collections at Amherst College Marshall Bloom Papers in the Archives & Special Collections at Amherst College Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States News agencies based in the United States Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War Counterculture of the 1960s