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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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smelling and it's death. And it's the case right in the ,
middle of the slaughter house. area in Chicago. I don't
know if you've been there but it's a hell-of-a stink and
they had two piles of manure 70 feet high either side of
the hall. They had to spray the speakers with special
chemicals. CBW stuff. So the flies wouldn't buzz around
them while they spoke, phew! It was designed by HOWIE
JOHNSON on the inside. Funky. I went in there one night.
I borrowed these credentials (illigible). It's a general
loose term, Life magazine collaborating with the yippies
and I went inside and I started to look around. This was
Friday. Convention started on Monday and all I see they
flip out. They do this little theater thing. They had
their guns (illigible ~- away from microphone) and they
say FLOWER POWER! They circule you, you know, they got a
pad and paper 18, 24 (illigible). Right to Washington.
They'll be at the trial, Strange evidence will be at the
trial. They had 25,000 troops in Chicago. They had
helicopters with machine guns, they had ten miles of barbed
wire all around eight city blocks around the Convention,
I don't know if they got a permit for that. We'll have to
check that out. All these troops. Mayor there said “We
needed these troops because in the April issue of .
Saga Magazine the yippies reveal their plans. SAGA MAGAZINE}
(illigible) head cops. Sounded like the police union,
like fight the things like longer clubs. Stuff like that,
I don't know. And he said you people have very good credentials
you have burned down a number of (illigible) before you
came to Chicago. (illigible) Yeah. That's right. People
@ll looking at you - very freaked out. The head cop. Dumb
yippie. They're both agreeing. Burned down a number of
“eities. They'd believe anything.
Te “Boob tube, Saw a show couple of months “REO said
where'd you get your money. They always ask that, huh. Oh
well, on August 17, 4 a.m. Seventh Street and Avenue B, we
met with a man who called himself Spiro Agnew and he gave us
$10,000 in small paper bids. Let's go on to the next
question - what's a hippie, what's a yippie, and all this
heavy intellectual stuff. At the end of the show the (illigible)
said, "Hey, I don't think the people know that the Republicans
gave you money." You Know, like them them. And the moderator
said, "Yeah, they do that. I mean after all it did help
Nixon and Humphrey did get beaten because of that rat.”
Makes Sense. And the cameras doing that. Makes sense. MAKE
SENSE. WHAT A TRIP. They're all on a trip out there.
They're serious. Make sense.
Now I wear this shirt, right? Looks like a flag.
I wear it because I was born on the Concord Bridge. Tradition
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