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"Abbie Hoffman: & NY 100-161445 _. CONFID NTIAL icture. As you can see the speech was given eight days ago. his picture was taxen two years wnen I was a guest at the Cook County Jail. I was handcuffed and had leg irons on and I was convinced for three hours by four guards that I should have my picture taken. And this was the picture that:was taken and used. NoWeeeece "Nicholas Johnson: "Abbie ypu don't know, you can grow hair faster than anybody else, thatj's the (unintelligible) of your secret. "But, now CBS, although they had the commentary pretty right, this is the picture that CBS (unintelligible) at CBS used to tielcome me back in the fold. Now, the hair is longer, is long is plastered down, it comes from about a year and a half ago when Grace Slicx and I tried to sneax in the Wnite House to visit Tricia Nixon. The suit is of course ‘porrowed and they made a big point about this, you «know, because now it's wearing suits and ties and sticking my hair down, coming right back within the fold, you know. But, the only suits in my closet are lawsuits at the present time. So you can see who I am, you know, and there are the two pictures that went out and of course the state of the American Empire doesn't rise or fall unfortunately on the length of one's hair not lixe it was in Biblical times, But...you now, it is show quite dramatically a kind of distortion for a minor - event, of course after that I was gonna snow John Cnancellor (unintelligible) scope of his reporting the throat cuttings at Attica. Now, I think that nore than anything, this year that Iocan think, of, was an UN.eees- JuSt an incredible piece of reporting. I've met no one who did not believe the story entirely. I mean once, once Walter says it's true and Howard agrees and John even agrees, once chocolate and vanilla and strawberry say it's true, it's true. How did...did you feel angry after you found out that there weren't any throats cut? Did you Bill? How did, how did react to that? How did you react when you know that the news has been you've been wise to? (unintelligible)? - - 22 « _ CONFIDENTIAL