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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29

130 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 13, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 128 pages OCR'd
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN noise) “He can be just like that. If you had been in, had anybody gone to Chicago to see him? No? You probably couldn't have gotten in. It was very hard getting in. This was the only courtroom in history where you were searched for hair at the door Special (indistinct), huh? Out! “Julius had these big burly waiters come over and move his table and pick it up and put it behind the counter ‘cause... he probably took a bath right after. That was the relationship we had with the judge. "Well, so the Government finished the trial. ‘We've finished! We've won! The American jury system has been vindicated "Well, aside from all the selection, you know, that I just described, let's look at the jury system a little more, a jum of our peers. When they got in the room--don't forget, they had been sorta jailed for about five and a half months themselves in the Palmer House Hotel, one of the more plush penitentiaries in Chicago. You're not allowed to watch television, read newspapers-- he'd repeat it every single day, five times a day. You're not allowed to watch television or read newspapers or read books or watch movies or...they couldn't, they couldn't see like any movies like related to youth culture or anything like that. They could only watch Walt Disney movies and James Bond movies, which are 23
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