Ray Mungo

Raymond A. Mungo[3] (born 1946) is an American author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books.

[3][4] LNS split off from Collegiate Press Service (CPS) in a political dispute.

The founding event was a notably tumultuous meeting that transpired not far from the offices of CPS on Church Street in Washington, D.C. Mungo descriptively details this event in his book, Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with the Liberation News Service, published in 1970.

[5] In 1968, he moved to Vermont with Verandah Porche and others as part of the back-to-the-land movement.

He completed a master's degree in counseling and began working with the severely mentally ill and with AIDS patients in Los Angeles.