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unusual facts about Abbie Hoffman



David Dellinger

Dellinger had contacts and friendships with such diverse individuals as Eleanor Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Hoffman, A.J. Muste, Greg Calvert, David McReynolds and numerous Black Panthers, including Fred Hampton, whom he greatly admired.

In 1996, during the first Democratic Convention held in Chicago since 1968, Dellinger and his grandson were arrested along with eight others - including Bradford Lyttle and Abbie Hoffman's son Andrew - during a sit-in at Chicago's Federal Building.

Jay Levin

Levin hired Texas writers Big Boy Medlin, Ginger Varney, and Michael Ventura, as well as Anita Hoffman (wife of then-fugitive Abbie Hoffman).

John Giorno

Spiro Agnew called Giorno and Abbie Hoffman "would be Hanoi Hannahs" after their WPAX radio broadcasts made to the US troops in South Vietnam on Radio Hanoi.

Mark Frechette

He appeared on the Merv Griffin Show alongside Abbie Hoffman when the latter controversially wore the American Flag as a shirt and Frechette got in a fight with another guest, which was later discussed during his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show in April 1970 with his Zabriskie Point co-star Daria Halprin.

The Stony Brook Press

In its early days, the Press featured exclusive interviews with political figures including Amiri Baraka, Abbie Hoffman, Ralph Nader, and Al D'Amato.

Vietnam Day Committee

The VDC was formed by Jerry Rubin, Paul Montauk, and a number of others including Abbie Hoffman and Stew Albert, between May 21 and May 22, 1965 during a 35 hour long anti-Vietnam war protest that took place inside and around the University of California, Berkeley, and attracted over 35,000 people.


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Amy Carter

Attorney Leonard Weinglass, who defended Abbie Hoffman in the Chicago Seven trial in the 1960s, utilized the necessity defense, successfully arguing that CIA involvement in Central America and other hotspots was equivalent to trespassing in a burning building.