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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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" Have you got the catalogue? Oh, you got it.
What‘s your nane? Butch? You know Butch. Butch has the
catalogue. You know this film and the next one, and
there are about fifty other films - they're groups in
San Francisco, Atlanta, New York's the largest, I guess,
Chicago's setartin' up - of filmmakers who make these filus
and send them around to schools and show them on the
streets, communities and stuff like that. Next one won
the academy award for most political relevance by SDS. It
was close. There was another film called Cultural
Imperialism in Antarctica, that only cost six bucks. This
one cost twelve, so I think that's why we won. Twelve
bucks = four of us made it. Ed Sanders, who was - I heard
he was here last year - he did the soundtrack. Phil Oakes
and some other Yippies just made up a song and stuck one in,
and G. W. Griffith helped out - you'll see him in there.
It was put tog ther by stolen footage and a little extra
shooting, and it was made for twelve dollars by four guys
who like don't know how to make a film. It's a groovy kind
of way to meditate ~ make a movie. Try it, it’s easy.
Mayor Daley, I forgot him. Oh, I gotta show you my shirt.
I gave this cop some hash and... I wear it to trials and
arraignments. I wear it to mod squad. Yippie. Ready,
OK, here's Yippie. Oh, this was made for TV, so the words
have been changed to protect the innocent.
“ How did Oliver win? Well, there was one thing
wrong with the film. We did put the LSD in the drinking
water. LSD in the drinking water. They've all this
evidence, eight people, conspiracy, put LSD in the drinking
water. Everything was ready. Insanity. Real mission
appears for the government. I'm here to check out a sight
for the ABM System. This is one of our key programs.
They‘re workin' for us. You see, a couple years ago we
thought this country ought to take about eight billion
dollars....He's busted, he's calling up DeGaulle. He's
going to be the next Secretary of welfare in this country.
So he asked me to come up here and look around, so if you
know a good spot for it around, let me know. I'll be
doing my duty. LSD in the drinking water.
"They have fifteen bundred troops in Chicago
guarding the filter system in the reservoirs for the LSD,
and I'12 call up Deputy Mayor Stall, he's gotta stall for a
permit for five months. That's his name, David Stall. There
was a judge, we went before a judge in Chicago to get an
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