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Abbie Hoffman — Part 14

182 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Dec 17, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 182 pages OCR'd
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file. ated 4 ! f } ee ee Tm a re ~ 7 sat STILLWATER (A - Ter- ming the next two weeks the the most critica] in the histary of the antiwar campaign. Yip- pie leader Abbie Hoffman Wednesday night — predicted troop rehcllisns in Vietnam and civil disobedience in Washington. He urged an audience of about 2.30 at Oklahoma State University to join schedulec amivar demonstrations — in May, staging their own demon- strations in Stillwater if they cannot go to Washington. On May 5, he said, “there will be strikes at universities and on May 5 there very dam- ned well he strike (sic) at Ok- Jahoma State Universty.” ON HIS arrival at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Air- port, Hoffman had predicted i the troop rebeilions. “Rebellion by armed units in Vietnam will begin in the next two weeks." he teld newsmen. He added that antiwar leaders would be broadcasting encour- agement over Radio Hanoi to urge American troops in Viet- nam to rebel. He said tape recordings made in New York by his group will be broadcast to the troops. Hoffman's appearance was without incident, although it had been delayed a year by a speaker policy that banned him from a scheduled talk on campus fast year. A feder- al suit to overrule the policy was dismissed {his spring be- cause regents adopted a new polley which did not prohibit his appearance. Hoffman is free on $25,000 bond pending appeal of his conviction in connection with the riots at the Democratic national convention in 1968. Hi TOLD THE OSU au- dience there “is more to being ¢- a revolutionist than smoking grass and hanging a picture of Che Guevara on the wall,” as he cautioned students about what drugs they use. He drew | his biggest applause of the| night when he told students to | avoid all neciile-injected ; druzs, adding the only Cope Worth shooting is Richard Nix: ty Carlier in Oklahoma City, Hoffman said government offi- cials have been harassing Ieft- ist Ieaders for the past few _wertis, and he predicted that! pane Ae ! Protests Urged Q ..OLUinan Says Anti yar Brive at Critical Pomt ~, all of the Chicago Seven de- fendants will soon be arrested, including himself, within the nextbxa weeks. He described Leslie Bacon, the 19-year-old girl arrested Wednesday as a material wit- ness to the March 1 bombing of the nation’s Capitol, as ‘“‘one of the key organizers of the Mav Day demonstrations.” “ISN'T IT convenient,” he added. ‘that four days before the demonstration, they atrest one of the key organizers?” He said two FBI agents fol- lowed him to Oklahoma. “They tried to revoke my hard cavaesnl meorthe aan whan I was caught with a hrebomb in Beifast (Ireland},’’ he said. “But they couldn’t. You know how our permissive court system is.” When he opened his talk, he held out a ring and told the au- dj : * “T have just come from hav- ‘ig tea with the Viet Cong in Paris. Mme. Vinh gave me this ring made from an Ameri- can plane which had been shot down.” The remark drew applause a/s/az PSR “/40 sure PRC SBee
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