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Abbie Hoffman — Part 1

99 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 95 pages OCR'd
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mead ! = “eid — PAGE FIVE HOFFMAN CONFIRMED HE HAD BEEN APPROACHED BY UNIDENTIFIED MOTION PICTURE CONCERN FOR MAKING MOVIES OF LIFE STORY. STATED WOULD NOT PLAY STARRING ROLE BECAUSE HE WAS NOT MOVIE STAR, ASSERTED IF JAMES DEAN WERE STILL ALIVE HE WOULD CHOOSE HIM FOR ROLE. HOFFMAN STATED “HE LOVED” CHICAGO MAYOR RICHARD DALEY’S FILM RE DEMONSTRATION ACTIVITY CHICAGO AT DNC ENTITLED “WHAT TREES HAVE THEY PLANTED7™. IT WAS MAGNIFICENT, EXCELLENT AND “GROOVY.” EXACTLY WHAT UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT WANTS EXHIBITED. REQUEST MADE BY MOFFMAN OF NBC AND CBS, WITHOUT REQUEST FOR EQUAL TIME, TO AIR PROGRAM NATIONALLY WITHOUT EDIT OR FURTHER COMMENT. ONLY TWO CRITICAL COMMENTS, FIRST, CHICAGO PROFESSOR WHO NARRATED FILM WAS BORING AND SECOND, FILM REPORTED NO ONE SERIOUSLY HURT DURING ACTIVITY. HOFFMAN SAID STATEMENT WAS WOT EXACTLY CORRECT BECAUSE SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD BOY FROM SIOUX CITY, LOWA, DEAN JOHNSON, WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY CHICAGO COP DURING DEMONSTRATION ACTIVITY. HOFFMAN STATED HE HAS HEARD FROM RADIO AND TV STATIONS ACROSS NATION HIS LIFE MAS BEEN THREATENED ON AT LEAST TWENTYFIVE SEPARATE OCCASIONS SINCE CHICAGO ACTIVITY. HE STATED DURING TIME HE WAS IN CUSTODY CHICAGO PD, FOR ARREST DURING CONVENTION ACTIVITY, EWD PAGE FIVE
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