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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29

130 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 13, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 128 pages OCR'd
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coy worry os a ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "streets of Chicago? Is your old man a police captain? Well it wouldn't be old man because the median age of the jury was 52 except for one 23-year-old, Kay Richards, CIA agent, Benedict Arnold of our generation. I have to tell you, did you read her... was her life story around this way? Does anybody know who I'm talking about? Have they seen her? She has two agents now. She's made $100,000 so far on the trial. Has-anybocy seen her? -Ah,- - she's out of...she opens up...she has a book coming out in about four weeks. She says, her opening line is 'I convicted Abbie Hoffman, now I want to read his books.’ She said sending us all to prison was the most liberating act of her life. Now she wants to experience a new life style and all, you know. Well, a hundred grand will help and her CIA connections. She was, ah... "Tell you a bit about the jury decision because, because at the end of the trial the prosecutor, Mr. Foran (phonetic: the Government, Mr. Foran said 'We've won ‘cause we've finished the trial.' That was their, it's like an anal compulsive thing about him; you've got to, you're not through till you're wiped, you know. So, they got to the end. Now if we wanted to disrupt that fuckin trial, if we wanted to bring that to an end, we could have done it on the opening day. There were eight mean motherfucking cats in that room. We could have stopped that fuckin trial dead cold. We didn't have to go through the agony 18
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