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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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HOFFMAN: "Recess is over. My name is Johnny Cash.
Ha! First wetre going to show this clip
that me and a coupla my buddies made...uh... didn't
win the Academy Awards last night. Too bad about
that. Cost us about 12 bucks. About cops and yippies.
Chicago. Features Mayor Dalg.
"Now. . I like to really dig you when every-
body gets the juice flowing, you know, and yolls and
all that sh-~ and pulis out words and burns down a
building and all that. But there are a couple of
ground rules. Things I oughta let you Imow about. Yeah!
see this morning I had my 39th arrest in New York. I
almost didn't make it here.
(Booing and yelling from audience)
HOFFMAN: " That's good. Thatts good. I dug it too.
39 arrests. No convictions, see. Dig it!
They arrested me for. . wh.. . not showing up in court
Friday. Now the reason why I wasn't in court was
because in the recess I went down in the phone booth
and when I came out of the phone booth, see, they were
clearing the Black Panther Party out of the lobby or
someplace. They were in there having their demonstra-
tion, and I got ten feet out of the phone booth, see,
and this pig jumped me from the back. Caught me real
good. Yeah! That's good! That's right. He sold
10,000 copies of my book. I love himt But see, I hit
the pillow. See? I hit this pillow and I came bouncing
off the pillow and I said, ‘Get the f--- out of the
building.’ That's a direct quote. For the ladic. that
are here whote interested in history.
“Now I proceeded to give a karate demonstration
and sent three cops to the hospital. I got... oe
felonious .. . they call this ... they call it felon-
fous assault. See? Felonious assault, see. Dig it!
Not Jello sh- - like some chicken sh-- ba----- threw
at me an hour ago. See]
"So like . . uh. . .like this is a little.
uh. . this is a liberated zone here.
"Okay. I'11 show you the flick. ...
Flower power. Only some of us got thornes.
7 (More booing from audience)
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