Where Have You Gone Abbie Hoffman?

Cook, Dana
http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/where-have-you-gone-abbie-hoffman/
Date Written:  2019-04-05
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23619

A collection of excerpts of people writing about Abbie Hoffman on the 30th anniversary of his death.

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Thirty years ago, on April 12, 1989, the political activist, anarchist revolutionary and counterculture impresario ran out of steam and optimism and took his life with a massive phenobarb/booze cocktail. In the following, Barbara Walters, Norman Mailer, Paul Krassner, Candice Bergen, Bill Lee and others remember the iconic co-founder of the Yippies (Youth International Party)....

"Abbie has a charisma that must have come out of an immaculate conception between Fidel Castro and Groucho Marx. They went into his soul and he came out looking (or at least he used to look) like an ethnic milkshake—a Jewish revolutionary, Puerto Rican lord, Italian street kid, Black Panther with the old Afro haircut, even a glint of Irish gunman in the mad, green eyes. I remember them as yellow-green, like Joe Namath's gypsy green eyes. Abbie was one of then most incredible-looking people I ever met."

from the Introduction to Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture, by Abbie Hoffman (Perigee, 1980)
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