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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12

96 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 18, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 96 pages OCR'd
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Gc 9 e CONFIDENTIAL NY- 100-162445 III. PUBLIC APPEARANCES A. NorthwestemUniversity Law School Chicago, Tllinois October 17, 1969... b7e furnishe A cassette tape recordiing made on October 17, G, a meeting held at the Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, Illinois, under the auspices of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and attended by approximately 400 individuals. ~ Excerpts fromthis tape recording are set forth as follows concerning remarks made by the subject: “IT will (inaudible) to organize seven year olds (inaudible) a revolution (laughter and applause), I don't think if a seven year old kid (inaudible) he ain't doing it right. (Inaudible) therefore, I believe that they should use a little different strategy, possibly at the trial too. Look at what it is. I think it's a tool, a weapon. a weapon (inaudible). It is possibly the only trial in history in which people have to leave the Federal Building to search for air (laughter and applause). The (inaudible) that court like - 4t'ts a theater, like it's a school. Like I explain to the spectators, the Press, the judge, well fudge, is JULIUS the Just, he will never understand. He's beyond the generation gep (laughter). We sent him so far about 17 gallons of Geritol (laughter and applause). as he said before, ‘the Defendants have no respect for the highest court in the land, they ain't high'. There is no danger there. It is like nothing last year in Chicago, running eround the streets (Anaudible) fighting with the pigs, all that gas, mace. Well we had a lot of experience with that. We've grown accustomed to mace. We've grown accustomed to Chicago because Chicago 4s the United States. The United States in 1968, 1969, maybe 4
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