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Abbie Hoffman
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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 o…
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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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2026
May Day x 4
Movie Self
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2020
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
WBCN and the American Revolution
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
Movie Self
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2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
American Swing
Movie Self (archive footage/uncredited)
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1994
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1990
My Dinner with Abbie
Movie Himself
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1989
Heavy Petting
Movie Self
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1989
Growing Up in America
Movie Self
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1987
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
Movie Self
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1986
The Last Debate
Movie Himself
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1981
My Name is Abbie
Movie Self
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1974
The Lord of the Universe
Movie Himself
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1971
Bright College Years
Movie Self
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1970
Mayday
Movie Self
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1970
Brand X
Movie Policeman (Lawren Order)
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1970
Prologue
Movie Himself (Archival Footage)
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1968
Yippie
Movie Self
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1968
Emergency: The Living Theatre
Movie Self
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1968
Last Summer Won't Happen
Movie Self
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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The Yippie Response to Mayor Daley
Movie Producer
