◆ SpookStack

RE; ABBOT WARD _HO N Democratic Natinnal Convention in the summer of 1968 in Chicago, Illinois. HOFFMAN advised the audience the film was a dep‘ction of the Chicago disorders from the view-point of the "Yippie Movement." (Yippie is the term applied to the Youth International Party, a radical, left wing movement ae headquartered in New York City). ee film was scenes of ancient Rome, large crowds and chariots and old movies of police cars. HOFFMAN continually referred to the police as pigs during the movie and the movie lasted for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. After dowing the movie, HOFFMAN's speech continued and lasted for approximately one hour. HOFFMAN used profanity quite freely, called for a revolution and ousting of the "fore- mans" of the organiza ion. CRAY 25740 speech was disorganized and students and adults attempted to heckle him from the audierme. HOFFMAN met these attempts at hecking with arrogance 4nd sarcasm and attempted to make the hecklers look bad. that HOFFMAN became apparently discouraged with the reception that he was receiving from his audience and advised the audience that there was apparently no revolution at Potsdam State Universit and ad- vised that he had observed from the time that he stepped foot on the campus that it was a "nothing." After HOFFMAN's speech, he told the students that another individual by the name of JOSEPH<KELLY who happened to arrive at Potsdam State University the same date, wanted to talk to the students and adults present about the possibility of organizing an SDS Chapter on the Potsdam State Campus. KELLY was not well received and he was continually heckled through his speech by members of the audience. The speech was then returned back to HOFFMAN due to the fact that KELLY‘ were apparently falling on deaf ears, (JOSEPH KELLY has been identified as a student at Cornell University who is an active leader in the SDS in the Upstate New York area). =2-