Re: Abbie Hoffman) (fwd)

sixties@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 23:06:15 -0500

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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:56:54 -0600
From: Arman Safa <msafa@msuvx2.memphis.edu>
To: sixties@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: Abbie Hoffman)

Hi, i am a high school student doing a research paper on Abbie Hoffman.
I have read his autobiography, i read Steal this Book, and a few others.
I also of course, read some biographies. Unfortunately, there were not
that many, plus i need a few other sources. I was wondering if anyone here
had had any expieriences with him, heard anything about him, or know him.
I am looking for stories, information, and just about anything. I
appreciate this...thank you

Arman Safa

> > >
> > > and to be painfully honest, the author doesn't really
> > > tell me much one way or the other. He appears to be upset
> > > that the American Journalists Covering the War in Vietnam
> > > were disinclined to be the Propoganda Wing of the Government
> > > simply disseminating the Press Releases of the MAVC Five o'clock
Follies.
> > >
> > > If this is the tone, tenant, and core of the Alledged
> > > Conservative Wings dissent about the Evil Media and it's
> > > Stab in the Back Motiff, I would Highly Recommend that these
> > > Alledged Conservatives get a chance to get out more often,
> > > and live under a Really Regulated Media Environment.
> > >
> > > Perchance they might also take some time and check out the
> > > Soviet Dissident Movement, the various Samizdat responses to
> > > life under the Communists, and then Reconsider kvetching about
> > > the UnKindness of a Constitutional Ammendment Granting Freedom
> > > of Speach, and the far more Unpleasant implementation of having
> > > a Free Press willing to Fight to defend that Constitutional
Ammendment
> > > without HAVING to put tanks in the Streets!
> > >
> > > ciao
> > > drieux
> > >
> > > ps: my complements to John Baky for technical assistance
> > > in getting access to this and other documents.
> > >
> >