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CONFIBENTIAL NY 100-161445 : r : ¢ Referring to the American Civil War President, he said "Abe Lincoln once said, ‘If the people shall grow weary of their constitutional right to amend the constitution, they must exert the revolutionary right to dismember and over- throw the government} If A. Lincoln had said that in Lincoln Park in Chicago, 1968, he would have gotten five years just like the rest of us." HOFFMAN remarked that "This is such a WASP place - I'm a kike you know, I ain't got nothing against religion you know. Jesus was a brother in the early days. He wore long hair and sandals,” HOFFMAN sprinkled his speech liberally with his favorite four letter expletive. “I suzy the word alot. I learned to use the word in the police station. It's the only word left in the English language that expresses both outrage and love", He expressed the belief that colleges and universities ought to be teaching guerrilla warfare because "You're going to need it." Instead he said, institutions of higher learning are teaching cynicism and defeatism. HOFFMAN generally marked the establishment, justice and society and after shortly more than an hour of his comedy political harangue routine, he departed the cht .el | in a crowd, i: 4! of Mr. HO at the CU campus, Ham » New York, shortly after 8:00 PM, on April 29, 1970, a small group of students, numbering approximately 20, attempted to block him fro i the sj ntrance to the university Memorial Chapel. at although no violence resulted, there was a brie rontation during which HOFFMAN was alleged to have wved a hunting knife at the students b in order ta gain entrance to the Chapel. that one of the students who was not identified, telephonically contacted the Hamilton, New York, Police Department, in an effort to obtain a warrant for HOFFMAN's arrest in connection with the blocking incident, The university administration is not in favor of any of its students filing a complaint against HOFFMAN since they do not desire to have any additional publicity to HOFFMAN's visit. —- ’ = 50 SONFIRENTIAL