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Abbie Hoffman — Part 1
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: Demons ré tions Stausting Seve yer f 1G08
f Protcs’ irz the Fouse Un-1n0o2. 212 t¢- vitiles
Comiit’ ce (HUAC) Hearings ijp typeiy con D.c,
¢ On the Chicago Disturbance:
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NATLESAL EMERGENCY CIVIL
LIF NTIES COMMITTED (CCNT'D)
when he epue: red Curing tre Av
hearings, # % * WOILEINSSON ras $3
convicved of contenpt of Conzress and
to one year in jail.'
' 'Misputing the non-Communist claim of the
organization, the committee finds thet a
number of otrer individu2zis connected
with the ECLC alsohave been identified under
ae mo ee ee Cath as Cow nigte. tn FP LL. --
= Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual
Report for 1°55, House Report 187, Merck. 9,
1959, pr. 34 and 35.)
] "2.'To defend tre cases of Communist law-breekers,
special appceéis
fronts have teen devised maxiz
_
*
ap in behalf cf civil liberties and reaching cus
on far beyond te confines of the Termmunist
a Party itseif. Anong these orgenizatiors are tne
mise “ * * Emersency Civil Liberties Conmittee.
! When the Communist Party itself is uncer fire —
ef these fron :s cffer a bulwerk of protection.'!
Bj (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate
Tey Judiciary Committee, Handbook for dAnericans,
es S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, ». 91.)"
___ "The New Yorx Times", a New York City deily
| neispaper, in its April 2, 1¢65, issue, page 13, contained
— an izem captioned, "Draft Dissenters to Get More Help",
which related that at 4a news corference held cy the
Smerzency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC} on the previous
ee. day, it was announced that the organization was changing
_ it: tame to the National Ruerzency Civil Liberties Comittee
a (Nasl0) "to reflect our determinnton to develop a vital
=o National civil liberties organisation in ull 59 states
as ripidly as possible."
b ) NEW de lecate
City.
that the
York
25 Eant, 2G6ti: Hhrak tow
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