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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12

96 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 18, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 96 pages OCR'd
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ny nn ee eee Pa ” tthe al oedReti meter lines Mertel 5, . Tt fom ’ v ad J 'é { wee roe os eer eee ie We ae CONFIDENTIAL NY 100-161445- . SG on LEE J. WEINER is identified in the , "Chicago Daily News" of April i0, i965, " Page 1, as an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and.an anti-war activist in the Chicago area. N. Festival of Life ‘Hartford, Connecticut ; Apri 14, 1970 SAS of the FBI observed a Festival of Life conducted by the Anti~Aircraft Conspiracy in Bushnell Park in midtown Hartford, Connecticut from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM on April 14, 1970. ‘The affair was attended by about 2,000 persons mostly youths of the “hippie type". which time he stated in part as follows: The subject spoke for approximately 20 minutes during "Those guys down in Washington, President Agnew, General Mitchell and Hyiakowa, Martha Raye and all those dumb dinosaurs wha imperialism feils abroad they begin to have a policy of fascism at home, and that's where we got to Start fighting it. The revolution begins at home, right in our living rooms, right here in Hartford, Connecticut, and than wtwant to Wau Un on on down the street in New Haven, Connecticu’.. "Right here in New Haven, Connecticut, they're trying to railroad into the electric chair the bravest, meanest, , revolutionary in the whole danned country, Bobby G. Scale.’ We're never going to let that happen. We're never going to let that happen because we know, one thing we learned in our trial. you can't find - I'1l give $1,000 bucks to anyone whoa . can name a liberal Senator down in Washington, that opposed that trial. The only reason we got out is because’ 500,000 of our brothers and sisters constituted themselves as a jury of our peers and voted for us in this only jury in the in the old courtroom that we have left in this dieing America, the'streets, and that's how we got out. - 3 « CONFIDERTIAL
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