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Show 76 Copies were picked up in bundles of 100 to 250 at the Homefront coffeehouse and taken to the post to be left in barracks buildings, halls, offices, and other work places. mess To circumvent the dis tribution decision, Roberts and Stocker handed copies of the paper to motorists passing through the Fort Carson gate. outside the gate, they were not violating the ban. Standing just On these occa- sions, the publishers said, their actions would be monitored by military police and eventually Colorado State Patrolmen would arrive at the gate and inform them that they would be issued cita tions for obstruction of traffic if they failed to leave the gate area. Roberts said this distribution method could be carried out for long as as twenty minutes at a time before the arrival of civilian police. Roberts and mil itary a member of the Homefront staff pol-ice officers from the post at Fort Carson the Fort Carson stockade. of a fence. arrested by March, 1970, and ejected following the distribution of Aboveground to at paper in were Copi es had' been folded into the shape airplane and "flown" This arrest took immates over the stockade's barbed wire place following Roberts' discharge from the service. The publishers assumed their distribution would be augmented by reader who passed along individual copies readers. A single copy might be left in a to other barracks reasoned, and be circulated among several people. number of copies were distributed by mail to potential building, they Although a small subscribers at Fort Carson, the publishers relied upon hand distribution to reach their intended readership. , |
