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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12
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hat ‘in view of this, HOFFMAN
an NGLASS obtained tae rental of the Dallas Fair Park
Band Shell from noon to_6 on April 11, 1970, for .—
a rental fee of: $150. that -
arrangements for the above speeches the Band
/ xsi were made by NORMAN JERRY/RIFFE and TIMOTHY SCOTT
KELLEHER, 3064 Milton Street, Dallas, Texas,
members of the Dallas Peace Committee (DPC).
that a $2 admission charge was to be made at the
ell to defray expenses.
$
and WEINGL arrived in as, Te 0:00 AM on
April 11, 1970, by way of Texas ie: & APPROX,
Flight 924 from Austin, Texas, hat 7-- --- —-
HOFFMAN and WEINGLASS were accompanied by a SUSAR [YTLLS ANSON
described by the source as a white female, age 21f\ and who
is a student at Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. HOFFMAN,
WEINGLASS, and WILLIAMSON were met at Love Field Air Terminal,
Dallas, Texas, by TIMOTHY SCOTT KELLEHER, who drove them from
Love Field to 3117 Live Oak Street, where HOFFMAN and WEINGLASS
held a short press conference.
During the press conference, HOFFMAN and WEINGLASS
told newspaper reporters that "the February convictions of the
Chicago seven will be overturned upon the first appeal to a higher
court". WEINGLASS told reporters “Everyone I talk to is
convinced legally that we have a reversible case. Every
lawyer knows there were errors even after the first .day."
The above press conference was billed by HOFFMAN as "a
fireside chat."
WEINGLASS appeared at the Dallas Fair and Shell at 1:30 PM,
on April 11, 1970, at which time both HOFFHAN: and WEINGLASS
made short speeches of approximately 15 minutbs each. During
HOFFMAN's speech, he told about how the movembnt leaders were
being oppressed by the "Establishment" and how the people in
Dallas just had to get organized into a "conspiracy" and
“start doing things". HOFFMAN told the gathering of approximateiy
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