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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 "trial was a liberal] trial. That's why most of the people are here to watch me and they wouldn't come if a Black Panther was here talking about Bobby Seale's trial. Because, because it was a liberal trial. Freedom of speech. It was a trial of our innocence, a year and a half ago. What was your state of mind on August 23d of 1968? Sitting on the stands (indistinct) Dick Schultz, Government plotter." (At this point there is questioning of Hoffman from ae someone in the audience, the nature of which is indistinct. FE Hoffman continues...) me “Just ‘cause the, just ‘cause the prosecutor in his first speech after the trial said that we were part of the freak- ing fag revolution, don't get any ideas about the asshole." (Light clapping) "Well, as getting back to the jury, Miss Kay Richards, Miss Kay Richards was the only one on the jury that was allowed to have a private room. Miss Kay Richards was the only one that was &llowed to make unmonitored calls. Miss Kay Richards, just before she negotiated this treaty in which the liberals sell out their conscience and said well, the law's unconstitutional, we'll leave it up to the higher courts, we'll wash our hands of the blood-- just before she worked out this agreement, she worked out another agreement and that was that none of the jurors would be allowed to 27
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