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21 Issues from this biweekly counterculture newspaper.

Willamette Bridge was an underground newspaper published in Portland, Oregon from June 7, 1968 to June 24, 1971. In the spring of 1968, several groups of people in Portland were discussing starting an "underground" newspaper in Portland, similar to the L.A. Free Press or the Berkeley Barb. The first issue of The Willamette Bridge carried this statement of purpose: To provide a means by which Portland's various liberal groups can learn of each other's activities; To be a bridge between these groups and the city officials, businessmen, parents and general citizenry; To provide a platform from which controversial issues and topics can be discussed; To print news that the mainstream press ignores, either by accident or by design; To give another slant to news that we feel is being distorted. And, hopefully, to establish more understanding among all of the peoples of the city.