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Abbott Hoffman, Aka — Part 22

127 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Sep 10, 1968 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Abbott Hoffman, Aka · 127 pages OCR'd
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| ; “untIDENTIAL “| would be vivlence. The basis for this appenred to be the | result of the April 27th demonstrations and the reaction of : the Chicago police force to those acmonstrations., There ‘ were alsy groups of peuoplc, I cannot Say whether they were marshals or exactly what they were, but they were people who were extrencly radical, if not militant, people advocating revolution and advocating that this demonstration should be onc of the initiating parts of that revolution and that violence was a desirable outcome of this weck in Chicago in | that it would aid in the cause of the revolution which to : ( my knowledge involved violence in the streets leading to 7 ; collapse of the present government. Several of the leaders, | ny including Abby Hoffman, indicated that violence was not | undesirable. The two groups principally involved with the — demonstrations on Wednesday the 28th which were originally intended to be peaceful and nonviolent were the Mobilization wh for Peace and the Yippies. The parade or march as it began “t be - was nonviolent. The march emanating from the band shell in Grant Park on August 28th was throughout its entirety as i }. Fe long as it lasted nonviolent. When the march was stopped, people waited what must have been an hour before breaking off from the march and moving as I previously mentioned toward the north in an attempt to get over to Michigan Avenuc,. -lu- | 4 CONFIDNYTIAL eS NL ene NES anwpeee tne _ - eee cee eee ap es, i.
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