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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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to4 aa | i. } re td qi ine aH be ll i cy ae al ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN “talk to the press. That none of them would talk to the press-- that was cool. Soon as the jury decision was in, eleven of the jurors went back to the Palmer House Hotel to get their belongings and Miss Kay Richards was driven to another hotel at which for five straight days she gave her whole testimony about what went on in the jury room. It was syndicated in 300 newspapers around , he turn ~ me = aan + aC 44uw 6G5 thy eet nts, she's on television shows all around America. Miss Kay Richards, just like us. Miss Kay Richards says that it was interesting serving on the jury--it was the first time she'd met a Negro." (Laughter from the audience, and someone asked "What's that?" Hoffman continues.) "I don't know, ask her, "Well, so there are in conflict two nations. You may say well, it's all going to fall apart anyway, just like t Roman Empire, the Babylonian, and all the other empires in history. It's.just gonna sink into the mud. That's the hippie attitude. We're just gonna pull off and do our thing and the card table, card house is going to come crumbling down. Well, I'll tell you it's falling right on our fuckin heads. We're like two trains running and they were going full speed right in that courthouse; just like that on the same track. And I'll tell you, if we don't figure out how to derail that other fuckin train before it's to taks us with it." (Light clapping) | ad too late, it's goin 28
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