Abbie Hoffman pictures

[Edward Penishands]

http://www.m37.cz/world/html-chicago/pictures-html-chicago/Abbie_Hoffman.jpg

http://www.sptimes.com/News/061401/photos/flo-hoffma.jpg

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Students/Vijoy/abbie.jpg
Abbie Hoffman arrested for wearing the American Flag

http://www.rotten.com/library/death/suicide/suicide-notes/abbie_hoffman_big.jpg

Abbie Hoffman
(November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989)

Activist/author of Steal This Book. Countercultural icon of the 1960's known for his rejection and parody of corporate America. Invented the term "yippies" (Youth International Party). During a major anti-war demonstration, he organized an "Exorcism of the Pentagon," in which over 50,000 people surrounded the Pentagon in an effort to levitate the building with their combined psychic energy. He remained a full-time activist until 1973, when he was arrested for the sale of cocaine. Facing a mandatory life sentence, Hoffman went underground and disappeared for 6 years - during which time he had plastic surgery and nervous breakdowns.

Committed suicide the same year George HW Bush assumed office.

http://www.rchrd.com/Gallery/Sixties/NYC68/abbie.jpg

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/~eembardo/voices/images/RevolutionForTheHell_jpg.jpg

http://www.sohoweeklynews.com/Book/ManGodLaw/images/Abbie_Hoffman_Portrait.jpg

[BOZG]

How exactly did he die?

[Ziggy]

he overdosed on sleeping pills, but i'd rather not dwell on how he died but remember the great man for what he did.
http://www.fish.com/~jym/pix/abbie-quote.png
http://www.hrcr.org/ccr/hoffman.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/60s/chicago8.jpg
http://www.thewvsr.com/images/abbie.jpg
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/abbiehair.jpg

[BOZG]

I wouldn't describe him as great. Another radical liberal. They come and go.

[Agent provocateur]

http://www.fezocasblurbs.com/archives/steal.jpg


http://www.erowid.org/library/books/images/steal_this.jpg

[Agent provocateur]

http://home.earthlink.net/~lenisinclair/abbie.gif

http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/culture/media/4/4535.jpg

[CubanFox]

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2004, 09:24 AM
How exactly did he die?
He was found dead on April 12, 1989, apparently having committed suicide. His suicide note read:

It's too late.

We can't win.

They've grown too powerful.

Curiously for a 60's rebel type, he was against heroin and other injected drugs, saying that the "only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon".

[SittingBull47]

thanks. I was looking around for his final words for a while. Strange how long it took me.

"only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon".
lol

[EL Revolucionario]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2004, 03:01 AM
He was found dead on April 12, 1989, apparently having committed suicide. His suicide note read:

It's too late.

We can't win.

They've grown too powerful.


So he gave up. Not something very admirable.

[Edward Penishands]

http://216.39.161.171/Abbie/images/jail.jpg


http://www.narconews.com/abbiepeo2.gif


http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/binary/43434-273-9/cover-1923.jpeg


http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News...t?oid=oid:43434 (http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:43434)

[Palmares]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2004, 01:01 PM
He was found dead on April 12, 1989, apparently having committed suicide. His suicide note read:

It's too late.

We can't win.

They've grown too powerful.

That is so sad.

I don't blame him though. I blame the system. :angry: For pushing a man to such a point, they will pay.

I will not give up.

http://www.suitelorraine.com/suitelorraine/Media/flip/AbbieHoffman.jpg

[Thomas]

Originally posted by EL [email protected] 2 2004, 10:02 PM
So he gave up. Not something very admirable.
After numerous traumas and breakdowns, he was basically a nervous wreck, only a shadow of his former self :( very sad, he was a modern thinker and a good man.

[Forward Union]

http://www.research.att.com/projects/wordseye/textures/people/politics/abbie_hoffman.jpg

http://world.std.com/obi/Emi.Anthology/picabby.gif

[Sabocat]

I highly recommend reading "Steal This Dream" .

The author did a good job researching Abby from the very earliest days in Worcester, Massachusetts, till the end. Interesting read.

[Forward Union]

Dont you think theres a resembelance in these two photos...

[Forward Union]

...

[DRS]

LOL i was thinking the same thing!

[resisting arrest with violence]

http://www.marksverylarge.com/images/7010cover_s.gif


http://www.dccofc.org/photos/friends.jpg

http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/celebrity/jack_abbott/2-1-Abbie-Hoffman-Davis-Jer.jpg


http://60sfurther.com/Gilbert2/ABBIE-HOFFMAN-NYC-196-2-th.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~lenisinclair/abbie.gif

http://www.availablelightphoto.com/portraits/1981-AbbieHoffman.jpg


http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/HoffmanAbbie/abbie2.jpg

http://rocksite.temp.powweb.com/imagens-e/especial/stones/17_AbbieHoffman.jpg

http://images.suntimes.com/photos/images/large_versions/1980s/4-37f.jpg

http://www.graphisme-echirolles.com/memoire/1999/images/galerie/rubin_hoffman.jpg

http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol36i2/img/pg17_1.jpg
Dropping acid with Dr. Timothy Leary and fellow co-conspirator Jerry Rubin

http://times.discovery.com/convergence/someone/slideshow/gallery/three_h.jpg



Abbie was believable as a speaker because people saw that he was doing what he advocated, risking imprisonment, provoking the police, making life out of being an agitator, putting himself on the front line of change ...

Abbie delighted in pushing his performances beyond the boundary of acceptable taste and official tolerance. He advocated draft resistance and applauded GIs who "fragged" their officers. He didn't just advocate smoking marijuana, he puffed on a joint on stage, daring campus and local police, state troopers, and FBI special agents who were usually in attendance to arrest him, knowing that they knew such a move would likely touch off a student riot. Leading a chant of "Fuck the judge," as Abbie often did when talking about the conspiracy trial, was meant to break through the barrier of propriety and thus meld youthful audiences into feeling the power of their generational solidarity. Abbie used obscenity to expose the topsy- turvy moral universe of American society during the Vietnam era. What was evil? What was hypocrisy? The authorities, and many older Americans, were shocked by Abbie's use of obscene language; but many of them supported a policy that involved bombing civilians, torching peasant villages, and napalming children.

After government policy was skewered and scorned, Abbie's basic message was that young people should commit themselves to changing the system. He was a one-man recruiting officer for the revolution, bolstering younger activists (many of whom faced disciplinary actions for their anti-war activity) and showing them by his own experience that it was possible to live a life dedicated to radical politics and that dropping out of the system was a career move that was not only fun but righteous and exciting. As a civil rights worker, Abbie had argued for job opportunities, good wages, and meaningful work. Now, as an advocate for the counterculture, he demanded full unemployment ... "We want a society of leisure, a society of creative artists in which we're free to do whatever we want, in which we enjoy what we're doing. If you enjoy it, it's not work. Work is something you do for money, for the kids---you know, for the boss, for the machines. I'm never going to work again, ever," Abbie would tell his youthful audiences. Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer pages 211-212

Here is a funny article:

http://www.kuhistory.com/proto/story.asp?id=67

[JazzRemington]

I'm not surprised he killed himself. I think I read somehwere that he was a manic depressent or something of a similar nature.

You know, the more I see pictures of Abby Hoffman, the more I have to say that the man they got to play him in Steal This Movie looks almost nothing like him in real life.

[Rage]

Abbie is the man! It is a shame that he commited suicide because he thoguht that there was no hope left :( , but he was just crazy at this point...

Man would I love to see another Abbie!

/,,/
Rock on!

[JazzRemington]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2005, 12:03 PM
Abbie is the man! It is a shame that he commited suicide because he thoguht that there was no hope left :( , but he was just crazy at this point...

Man would I love to see another Abbie!

/,,/
Rock on!
Probably. But actually, he was Bi-Polar, not a Manic Depressent.

[resisting arrest with violence]

Did you guys get to see when Forrest Gump met Abbie Hoffman in that movie or in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July when the real Abbie Hoffman appears at a window inside a University building and he he is shouting, "Spiro Agnew!" & "Tricky Dicky Nixon!!!" They were both really funny parts to those movies.