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Abbie Hoffman — Part 37

123 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Oct 14, 1971 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 122 pages OCR'd
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af . | J In Madison, Wisconsin, now it became Wisconsin and not New Jersey, Abbie Hoffman told ail young kids to get haircuts, He himself had been to the barber shop and had got a crew cut and they showed the following picture of me. Ie it on, It's on, yeah. Now, this is @ really interesting pictures As you can see the speech was given eight days ago. De 6 picture was taken two years when I was a guest at the i Cook County Jail. I was handcuffed and had leg irens on and I was convinced for three hours by four guards that I should have my picture taken. And this was the picture that _ was taken and used. Now...e.- Nicholas Johnson: Abbie you dont know, you can grow hair faster than anybody else, that's the (unintelligible) of your secret, | Abbie Hoffman: But, now CBS, although they had the commentary pretty right, this 1s the picture that CBS (unintelligible) at CBS used to welcome me back in the fold. Now, the hair is ionger, is long is plastered down, it comes from about a baer d year and a half ago when Grace Slick and I tried to sneak in —_ the White House to visit Tricia Nixon. The suit is of od course borrowed and they made a big point about this, you know, because now it's wearing suits and ties and sticking my hair down, coming right back within the fold, you know, But, the only suite in my closet are lawsuits at the prescent time, So you can see who I am, you know, and there are the so two pictures that went out and of course the state of the voy American Empire doesn't rise or fail unfortunately on the i dength of one's hair not like it was in Biblical times. But... you know, it is show quite dramatically a kind of distortion — for a minor event, of course after that T was gonna show Ce John Chancellor (unintelligible) scope or his reporting the . throat cuttings at Attica, Now, I think that more than anything,this year that I can think of, was an un......just an incredible piece of reporting. I've met no one who did not believe the story entirely. I mean once, once Walter says it's true and Howard agrees and John even agrees, once chocolate and vanilla and strawberry say it’s true, it's true. How did... mt did you feel angry after you found out that there weren't any ac throats cut? Did you Bill? How did, how did react to that? ¢ the news has been you've Pe How did you react when you know tha Ps, been wise to? (unintelligible)? wie . oe -13-
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