| LC control no. | n 80065585 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hoffman, Abbie |
| Variant(s) | Meteskey, George Free |
| Birth date | 1936-11-30 |
| Death date | 1989-04-12 |
| Found in | His Revolution for the hell of it, 1968. His The best of Abbie Hoffman, 1989: CIP data sh. (b. 1937) Raskin, J. For the hell of it, 1996: CIP t.p. (life and times of Abbie Hoffman, 1936-1989) galley 2 (suicide in April 1989 at age of 52) English Wikipedia website, viewed May 24, 2018 (Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936--April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist, anarchist, and revolutionary who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s, and remains an icon of the anti-war movement and the counterculture era. He died of an intentional ... overdose in 1989) |
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