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Abbie Hoffman — Part 9

109 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 109 pages OCR'd
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NY 100-161445 the Jury and the prosecutors--that would be fair. Talk - about fairness in American courtroom now? Insane! And it's the last enclave of the empire. We know when this ae trial is over, gonna effect a whole lot of people who Sit have been sitting on the fence in the middle but if we win, well, you come down to Chicago and we'll have a big victory party out in the street. We'll be dancing and (OBSCENE) on the grave of this sytem like there's never been dancing and (OBSCENE) in the streets before. And we hope you all're there; and if you can't come there, you stay right here and ARN «78111 AWN AANneNn ti nanny taAaarsiare f#haatkla ¢hra antimni€& af ansin Vu J wis WWlh VVIio VPs avy LTaunw viliay dD Vile MBpil dv Vai WuL struggle. Keep those homefires burning! So long brother! applause All to Washington now, you hear ... George Dewey ... applause oe "That would be kind of fair, put us in a room alone with oo H. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 12, 196‘ vA The "Evening News", a Newark, New Jersey daily a newspaper, in its November 13, 1969, City -County Edition, a on page 21, contained an article by BEN ST. JOHN, evening el news staff writer, entitled "Apbie Tells 'Chicago 8: Story — As He Sees It", which stated in part as follows: "Yippie leader Jerry Rubin never made it to Rutgers University from Chicago last night. But his fiery fellow Yippie and co-defendant in the ‘Chicago 8' trial, Abbie Hoffman, did. “Hoffman showed up at the university gy™nasium _— in place of Rubin, who was to have spoken at Rutgers, but was arrested in Chicago after walking out of the courtroom. “Hoffman told the gathering of about 900 persons who - turned out expecting to hear Rubin, that Rubin's bail was . revoked and a federal bench warrant had been issued for his Pn arrest. This was done, he said, after Rubin left the Chicago 4 courtroom where he, Hoffman and five others are being tried on riot and conspiracy charges stemming from the 1968 Democratic Na National Convention protests. ehb6- Ltpeenee : SNE PT PE PE NOLAN EI AR HEE oO MEN Pte oe
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