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chy en ee C oO waooieses , CONFIDENTIAL - ques in answer to inquiries from students, ABBIE HOFFMAN stated that donations could be turned over to him after the meeting but that it was not revealed how much was donated in response to this appeal. - t : aay «:: after ABBIE HOFFMAN's speech, a question and answer period followed during which HOFFMAN partied questions put to him by some of the students present. The New York ‘'Daily News" in its Maréh 19, 1970, age 51 contained an article entitldd "Abbie, With PSB SF Vk VV OMA Mas ME VEALED vwaevnww ae ne ee wee Jest, Wows Crowd at St. John's" which stated in part WS: “An audience of 700 at St. John's University, Brooklyn, gave an enthusiastic welcome yesterday to a speaker who would seem an unlikely hero for Catholic students -~ ABbie Hoffman, one of the defendants in the recent Chicago Seven riot conspiracy trial. “The radical evoked shouts, applause, cheers and laughter as he quipped about the trial, about Judge Julius J. Hoffman (whom he called 'Julie') about former U.S. attorney Thomas A. Foran, who prosecuted the case, and about Vice-President Spiro Agnew. “Hoffman, whose once~bushy hair was cut short during his brief stay in jail at the end of the trial but who is letting it grow agam, wore rumpled tan pants and a.blue corduroy shirt over a tee shirt. "He spoke for 1$ hours to students packing the gym at St. John's Brooklyn Center. _"'] still don't know what the charges were," he said ‘I kept asking but nobody would tell me'. "He said the defendants, charged with plotting to ; \