Abbie Hoffman

Born: 1936-11-30

Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement. As a member of the Chicago Seven, Hoffman was charged with and tried―for activities during the 1968 Democratic National Convention―for conspiring to use interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot under the anti-riot provisions of Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Five of the Chicago Seven defendants, including Hoffman, were convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot;  all of the convictions were vacated after an appeal and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to pursue another trial. Hoffman, along with all of the defendants and their attorneys were also convicted and sentenced for contempt of court by the judge; these convictions were also vacated after an appeal. Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s and remains an icon of the anti-Vietnam war movement and the counterculture era. He died by suicide with a phenobarbital overdose in 1989 at age 52. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abbie Hoffman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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American Swing

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Released: 2009-10-17

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

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Chicago 10

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Released: 2008-02-29

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who...

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Heavy Petting

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Released: 1989-09-22

Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray,...

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Yippie

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Released: 1968-12-31

The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically...

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Prologue

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Released: 1970-01-29

This film tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper with help...

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Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon

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Released: 2020-12-21

An exploration of the life and career of the Beatles superstar, with a look at the strange...

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Emergency: The Living Theatre

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Released: 1968-09-09

a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions...

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Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

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Released: 1971-04-11

The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's...

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Mayday

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Released: 1970-12-31

In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the...

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Growing Up in America

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Released: 1989-04-16

Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and...

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Brand X

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Released: 1970-05-18

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never...

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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

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Released: 2018-10-19

A documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to...

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WBCN and the American Revolution

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Released: 2019-04-18

The amazing untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM set against the...

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Last Summer Won't Happen

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Released: 1968-09-01

A critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in New York City, shot in 1968,...

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The Last Debate

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Released: 1986-01-23

Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were both on the leading edge of protest in the 1960’s. Rubin...

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The Lord of the Universe

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Released: 1974-02-02

He was the 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and, as the Millennium approached, he promised to...

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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

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Released: 2011-01-05

From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs...

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My Name is Abbie

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Released: 1981-01-01

A countercultural icon, Hoffman is remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the civil...

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The Dick Cavett Show

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First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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