Abbie Hoffman

Known for ActingBorn 1936-11-30Died 1989-04-12Worcester, 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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Growing Up in America

TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

My Dinner with Abbie

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

Prologue

The Dick Cavett Show

The Lord of the Universe

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon

Heavy Petting

WBCN and the American Revolution

American Swing

Yippie

Brand X

The Last Debate

My Name is Abbie

Bright College Years

Mayday

Emergency: The Living Theatre

Last Summer Won't Happen

The Yippie Response to Mayor Daley