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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26

163 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 30, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 160 pages OCR'd
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CV 176-97 MAN IN AUDIENCE: HOFFMAN: MAN IN AUDIENCE: HOFFMAN: WAW TRE AMG AN AUDIENCE: HOSTMAN: MAN IN AUDIENCE: HOFFMAN: MAN IN AUDIENCE? HOFFMAN: All right, if you're doing it. We're already living that kind of life that we think ought to take place. But the image we get, the general public. That's no image. The general public doesn't get this image though. Well, so. Doesn't get what you're Look, I, I, have a chapter in the book, uh, not a chapter, but an episode, which it was 6 AM, and, uh, during that week, and we were all kneeling around the, around, uh, ALLEN GINSBURG, who's singing chants. You know, and it was, uh, 6 AM, beautiful morning, next to Lake Michigan on the beach. Yeah, Cop cars were all around, helicopters with their machine guns flying overhead. Some big threat out there, And it was like very beautiful, mystical, religious experience. And I was erying because I knew that that would never, Like, make it on TV that night. It would be shot for violence because the media eats up violence and, uh, well, that's it. You know that was like sad. I mean, a lot of our lives are like beautiful. You krow the way we share our food, don ' t lock : our doors and things like that, But that story isn't told. Stories of our confrontations and 29
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