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Abbie Hoffman — Part 9
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the Jury and the prosecutors--that would be fair. Talk
- about fairness in American courtroom now? Insane! And
it's the last enclave of the empire. We know when this
ae trial is over, gonna effect a whole lot of people who
Sit have been sitting on the fence in the middle but if we win,
well, you come down to Chicago and we'll have a big victory
party out in the street. We'll be dancing and (OBSCENE)
on the grave of this sytem like there's never been dancing
and (OBSCENE) in the streets before. And we hope you all're
there; and if you can't come there, you stay right here and
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struggle. Keep those homefires burning! So long brother!
applause All to Washington now, you hear ... George Dewey ...
applause
oe "That would be kind of fair, put us in a room alone with
oo H. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 12, 196‘
vA The "Evening News", a Newark, New Jersey daily
a newspaper, in its November 13, 1969, City -County Edition,
a on page 21, contained an article by BEN ST. JOHN, evening
el news staff writer, entitled "Apbie Tells 'Chicago 8: Story
— As He Sees It", which stated in part as follows:
"Yippie leader Jerry Rubin never made it to Rutgers
University from Chicago last night. But his fiery fellow Yippie
and co-defendant in the ‘Chicago 8' trial, Abbie Hoffman, did.
“Hoffman showed up at the university gy™nasium
_— in place of Rubin, who was to have spoken at Rutgers, but was
arrested in Chicago after walking out of the courtroom.
“Hoffman told the gathering of about 900 persons who
- turned out expecting to hear Rubin, that Rubin's bail was
. revoked and a federal bench warrant had been issued for his
Pn arrest. This was done, he said, after Rubin left the Chicago
4 courtroom where he, Hoffman and five others are being tried
on riot and conspiracy charges stemming from the 1968 Democratic
Na National Convention protests.
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