The Berkeley Barb was an underground newspaper which was published in Berkeley, California, in the 1960s and 1970s. It was one of the most influential of all counterculture newspapers of the late 1960s, covering subjects including the anti-war and civil rights movements. Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon reserve Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...

The newspaper was founded in August, 1965 by Max Scherr. Quill Max was editor from the newspaper's inception until the mid-1970s. Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...

One of the Barb's most famous covers showed a boy with a chain around his mind.