NOTES

CHAPTER ONE: 1936–1948

  1. Abbie Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 7–8
  2. Ibid., 10.

CHAPTER TWO: 1945–1955

  1. Worcester’s ethnicity was still white-skinned in the ’40s and ’50s; in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s a multiracial mix was added, including African American, Latino, Vietnamese, and Cambodian communities.
  2. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 21.

CHAPTER THREE: 1955–1961

  1. Richard Lowry, A. H. Maslow: An Intellectual Portrait (Monterey, California: Brooks/Cole, 1973), 81.
  2. Abraham Maslow, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” Psychological Review, 50 (1943), 382.
  3. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 26–27.
  4. Ibid., 30.
  5. Ibid., 34.
  6. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 54.
  7. From Ferlinghetti’s “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See.”
  8. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 38.
  9. Ibid., 40.
  10. Ibid., 43.
  11. Ibid., 43.
  12. Worcester Telegram, October 30, 1961.
  13. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 57.

CHAPTER FOUR: 1962–1966

  1. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 61.
  2. Ibid., 59.
  3. Ibid., 61.
  4. Ibid., 63.
  5. Todd Gitlin, The Sixties (New York: Bantam, 1987), 196.
  6. FBI file #100-3160-351; Jack Hoffman Archive #1559.
  7. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 68.
  8. Ibid., 81.
  9. Nightfall magazine, June 1987.

CHAPTER FIVE: 1966–1967

  1. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 95.
  2. Marty Jezer, Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 84.
  3. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 86.
  4. Ibid., 78.
  5. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 85–86.
  6. Ibid., 86.
  7. Ibid., 16.
  8. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 101.
  9. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 53.
  10. FBI files NY 161-445 and BU 100-44-9923; Jack Hoffman Archive #1732.
  11. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 51.; Oui, July 1977, 124.
  12. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 51–52.
  13. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 137.

CHAPTER SIX: 1968

  1. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 137.
  2. FBI file 67C, Field Office File #100-161445; Jack Hoffman Archive #644.
  3. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 63.
  4. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 144.
  5. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 59.
  6. Ibid., 74.
  7. Ibid.
  8. John Schultz, “The Movie Isn’t Over Yet.” Unpublished article.
  9. Ibid.
  10. Not including “Fuck the System,” a booklet on freebies, the precursor to Steal This Book, that Abbie wrote in 1967 under the alias of George Metesky.
  11. Simon with Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 55.
  12. David E. Rosenbaum, “Yippie Leader Arrested on Flag Desecration,” New York Times, October 4, 1968, 30; Stanley Levey, “Murders Urged, HUAC Told,” Washington Daily News, October 4, 1968, 9.
  13. Telephone interview with Dr. Lawrence Epstein in Framingham, Massachusetts, April 15, 1992.
  14. FBI file #100-161445; Jack Hoffman Archive #645.
  15. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 169.
  16. Bert Barnes, “Court Overturns Conviction for Flag Desecration,” Washington Post, March 29, 1971, 48.

CHAPTER SEVEN: 1969–1970

  1. Quoted in Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 179.
  2. FBI file #176-34; FBI Field Office file #176-28; Jack Hoffman Archive #645.
  3. Judy Clavir and John Spitzer, The Conspiracy Trial (Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970); Contempt, foreword by Ramsey Clark, introduction by Harry Kalven (Chicago: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1970); Tom Hayden, Trial (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970); Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee, and Daniel Greenberg, The Tales of Hoffman (New York: Bantam, 1970); “The Chicago Trial: A Loss for All,” Time, February 23, 1970, 38–39.
  4. “The Chicago Trial: A Loss for All,” Time, February 23, 1970, 38–39.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 180.
  7. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were then completely unknown. “This is only the second time we’ve played together in front of people and we’re scared shitless,” Stephen Stills would tell the crowd.
  8. Anthony M. Casale and Philip Lerman, Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Fall and Rise of the Woodstock Generation (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1989), 3–4, 7–8, 15–20.
  9. Rolling Stone, December 23, 1993.
  10. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 5–6.
  11. FBI file 67C, p. 1339; Jack Hoffman Archive #644.
  12. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 211.
  13. FBI file #176-22; FBI New York Office file # 100-161445; Jack Hoffman Archive # 647.
  14. Ibid., 217–218.
  15. “The Chicago Trial: A Loss for All,” Time, February 23, 1970, 38.
  16. Jewell Friedman, “Jack Hoffman to Write Book, ‘Dear Abbie,’” Hartford Times, February 23, 1970, B1.
  17. William M. Kunstler with Stewart E. Alpert, “The Great Conspiracy Trial of ’69,” The Nation, September 29, 1979; Jack Hoffman Archive #036.
  18. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 249.
  19. FBI file #100-449923; FBI New York Office file #100-161445; Jack Hoffman Archive #644.
  20. Ibid.
  21. Ibid.
  22. Ibid.
  23. On February 25, 1970, after a speech by William Kunstler, a crowd descended on the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of Santa Barbara and burned it to the ground; Jack Hoffman Archive #442.
  24. FBI file #100-449923; FBI New York Office file #100-161445; Jack Hoffman Archive #644.
  25. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 251.
  26. Ibid., 252.
  27. Ibid., 222–223.
  28. Abbie’s letter in the September 1, 1971, issue of WIN details all these expenses.
  29. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, The Cointelpro Papers (Boston: South End Press, 1990), x.
  30. FBI New York Office file #100-161445; Jack Hoffman Archive #1607.
  31. Mademoiselle, July 1970, 103.

CHAPTER EIGHT: 1970–1971

  1. FBI file #176-34-124; FBI file #100-449923; Jack Hoffman Archive #660.
  2. Abbie Hoffman, “Steal This Author,” Harper’s, May 1974.
  3. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 190.
  4. Jezer, Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 227.
  5. FBI file #100-44698; Jack Hoffman Archive #1649.
  6. FBI file #67-C, pp. 6–7; Jack Hoffman Archive #644.
  7. FBI New York Office file #100-161445; Jack Hoffman Archive #647.
  8. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 195.
  9. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 235-236.
  10. FBI file #176-34 and #176-282; Jack Hoffman Archive #647.
  11. New York Times, Thursday, September 24, 1981, D26; the Times erroneously lists the date as May 5, the third day of demonstrations, and the fourth day of police actions, by which time the protests had fizzled and arrests had reduced the number of demonstrators to no more than a few thousand.
  12. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 260.
  13. FBI file #176-22; FBI file #NY 100-161445, #176-282, and NY 176-505; Jack Hoffman Archive #647.
  14. FBI file #176-34-187.
  15. Gentlemen’s Quarterly, May 1971, 17.
  16. New York Times Book Review, July 15, 1971.
  17. Craig Karpel, “Steal This Court,” WIN, November 11, 1971.
  18. New York Post, Wednesday, October 20, 1971, 4.

CHAPTER NINE: 1972

  1. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 267.
  2. New York Times, November 8, 1971, 6.
  3. Charles DeBenedetti, An American Ordeal: The Anti-War Movement of the Vietnam Era (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1990), 333.
  4. “The Third Indochina War: An Interview with Fred Branfman,” Liberation 17, April 1972, 20–22.
  5. Ibid.
  6. DeBenedetti, An American Ordeal, 324–332.
  7. Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Ed Sanders, VOTE! (New York: Warner, 1972), 27.
  8. FBI file #100-449923; Jack Hoffman Archive #639.
  9. Hoffman, Rubin, and Sanders, VOTE!, 151.
  10. Ibid., 42.
  11. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 75, 82.
  12. Hoffman, Rubin, and Sanders, VOTE!, 69.
  13. Ibid., 83.
  14. In the final tally, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., would be the only votes won by McGovern in the electoral college.
  15. John Kifner, “Freed ‘Chicago Conspiracy’ Men Still Active in Protest Roles,” New York Times News Service, December 1, 1972.

CHAPTER TEN: 1973

  1. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 279.
  2. Interview in Playboy, May 1976, 80.
  3. Ibid.; Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 280–281.
  4. Anita Hoffman and Abbie Hoffman, To america with Love: Letters from the Underground (New York: Stonehill, 1976), 45.
  5. Conversations with former detectives Arthur Nascarella and Robert Saso, March 26, 1992.
  6. FBI file #88-15696-1; Jack Hoffman Archive #541.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Jack Hoffman Archive #1733.
  9. FBI file #100-449923-381-67C.
  10. New York Times, Thursday, August 30, 1973.
  11. Letter from Allen Ginsberg to Gerald Lefcourt, August 29, 1973; Jack Hoffman Archive #A16.
  12. Jack Hoffman Archive #A16.
  13. Abbie Hoffman, “The Underground Odyssey of Abbie Hoffman,” Saturday Night, April 1982, 40.
  14. Ibid.
  15. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 283.
  16. Ibid.
  17. In 1976, FBI Director Clarence Kelley would claim that COINTELPRO had been discontinued in 1971. But Senator Frank Church’s Select Committee on Intelligence would assert, also in 1976, that only the name COINTELPRO had been discontinued. Its policies had continued unabated. Peter Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (New York: The Viking Press, 1983), 305–371.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: 1973–1976

  1. Interview in Playboy, May 1976, 57; Jack Hoffman Archive #2765, 592; Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 286.
  2. “Chicago Bid Denied,” New York Times, March 27, 1973.
  3. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 286.
  4. Ibid., 287.
  5. Ron Rosenbaum, “On Board the Underground Railroad,” New Times, May 30, 1975, 27.
  6. New York Post, April 16, 1974, 1.
  7. New York Times, April 17, 1974; FBI file #88-65062-A; Jack Hoffman Archive #508.
  8. Hoffman and Hoffman, To america with Love (New York: Stonehill, 1976), 34–35.
  9. Ibid., 39.
  10. Ibid., 72.
  11. Ibid., 82.
  12. “A Sisterhood of Poverty: Life without Abbie,” Village Voice, October 3, 1974, 10, 13, 16.
  13. Original letter in Jack Hoffman Archive.
  14. Ron Rosenbaum, “On Board the Underground Railroad,” New Times, May 30, 1975, 14–29, and June 13, 1975, 32–42.
  15. Ibid.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Ken Kelley, “Riding the Underground Range with Abbie,” Playboy, May 1976, 67–69.
  18. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 292.
  19. Based on conversations with Jonah Raskin in 1989, 1992, and 1993.
  20. Conversations with Oscar Janiger, MD, May 24, 1994.
  21. Kelley, “Riding the Underground Range with Abbie,” 67.
  22. Ibid., 69.
  23. Abbie Hoffman, “The Underground Odyssey of Abbie Hoffman,” Saturday Night, April 1982, 42.
  24. Jeff Nightbyrd, “Cover Blown, Blames Playboy: Abbie Talks Before Vanishing,” Village Voice, May 3, 1976, 18.
  25. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 293.
  26. Interview in Playboy, 58.
  27. Jezer, Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 260-261; Hoffman, Saturday Night, 42.
  28. Hoffman, Saturday Night, 43–44.
  29. Abbie Hoffman, “My Life on the Lam,” Oui, June 1977, 114.
  30. Hoffman, Saturday Night, 44.
  31. Ibid.
  32. Ibid.

CHAPTER TWELVE: 1976-1980

  1. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 343.
  2. Hoffman, “My Life on the Lam,” Oui, June 1977, 114.
  3. Abbie Hoffman, “President Jimmy: The Outside Story,” Oui, July 1977, 46–48 and 121–125.
  4. Abbie Hoffman, “The Great Gourmet Rip-Off,” in Square Dancing in the Ice Age (New York: Putnam, 1982), 116–117.
  5. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 350.
  6. Ibid.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ibid., 351.
  9. Ibid.
  10. Ibid., 351–352.
  11. Ibid., 352.
  12. Ibid.
  13. Ibid., 353.
  14. Ibid., 352.
  15. Ibid., 353.
  16. Charles S. Pierce, “Abbie! Calling a Native Son Home,” Worcester Magazine, September 1978, 51–55.
  17. Abe Peck, “Abbie in Chicago: ‘Good to be Home,’” Sunday Sun-Times, December 31, 1978, 7.
  18. Dan Kaplan, “Abbie!”, Worcester Magazine, November 7, 1979, 12.
  19. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 355.
  20. Danny Schechter, “Remember Abbie Hoffman?,” The Real Paper, December 1, 1979; aired on WBCN and on The Joe Oteri Show on Channel 56 on November 25, 1979.
  21. Dan Kaplan, “Abbie!”, Worcester Magazine, November 7, 1979, 12.
  22. Conversation with Oscar Janiger, MD, May 24, 1994.
  23. Howard Goodman, “The Last Yippie,” Inside: The Quarterly of Jewish Life and Style, Summer 1989, 82.
  24. Abbie Hoffman, “The Underground Odyssey of Abbie Hoffman,” Saturday Night, April 1982, 46.
  25. Teresa M. Hanafin in The Evening Gazette, Thursday, September 4, 1980, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1-2.
  26. Abbie Hoffman, “The Underground Odyssey of Abbie Hoffman,” Saturday Night, April 1982, 47.
  27. David Fenton, “The Press Riots Over Abbie,” Village Voice, September 17, 1980.
  28. Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, 356.
  29. David Fenton, “The Press Riots Over Abbie,” Village Voice, September 17, 1980, 17.
  30. Barbara Walters, letter to Dan Simon, 5-26-94.
  31. FBI file #88-65062; Jack Hoffman Archive #568.
  32. Ibid.
  33. David Fenton, “The Press Riots Over Abbie,” Village Voice, September 17, 1980, 16.
  34. Ibid., 77.
  35. 35 Review by Morris Dickstein in The New York Times Book Review, September 21, 1980, 7.
  36. Nathan S. Kline, From Sad to Glad (New York: Ballantine, 20th printing, August 1991), 48.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: 1981–1986

  1. Peggy Constantine, “A Stolen Book That’s Still Hot,” Chicago Sun-Times, reprinted in Newsday, Sunday, August 16, 1981.
  2. Mark Samuels, “Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Interview,” Oui, March 1982, 112.
  3. Joe Cassidy, “Liddy Fizzles in Great Debate,” The Albuquerque Journal, May 1, 1982.
  4. Harvey Wasserman, “Abbie Hoffman: Never Trust Anyone Under Thirty,” New Age, March 1983, 33.
  5. Ibid., 34–35.
  6. Ibid., 32.
  7. Conversations with Johanna Lawrenson and with Abbie in December 1982; conversations between Johanna and Joan Hoffman in December 1982.
  8. Conversation with former Greater Talent agent Bill Stankey on March 9, 1993.
  9. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 399–401.
  10. Paul Krassner, Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 322–323.
  11. David Corn, “The Abbie & Jerry Show,” Mother Jones, February/March 1985, 16; Conversation with Bill Stankey, March 9, 1993.
  12. David Corn, “The Abbie & Jerry Show,” Mother Jones, February/March 1985, 16.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: 1986–1987

  1. Diane Berger and Lisa Berger, We Heard the Angels of Madness: A Family Guide to Coping with Manic Depression (New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1991), 55.
  2. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edition-Revised (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1987).
  3. Berger and Berger, We Heard the Angels of Madness, 47.
  4. Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (New York: Putnam, 1980), 266.
  5. Georgotas Anastasios and Robert Cancro, Depression and Mania (New York: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1988), 198; Donald W. Black, MD, et al., “Suicide in Subtypes of Major Affective Disorder,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 44 (1987), 878–880.
  6. Diane and Lisa Berger, We Heard the Angels of Madness Sing: A Family Guide to Coping with Manic Depression, 114–115; Edward J. Khantzian, MD, “The Self-Medication Hypothesis of Addictive Disorders: Focus on Heroin and Cocaine Dependence,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 142 (1985), 1259–1264.
  7. Abbie Hoffman with Jonathan Silvers, Steal This Urine Test (New York: Penguin, 1987), 76.
  8. Howard Goodman, “The Last Yippie,” Inside: The Quarterly of Jewish Life and Style, Summer 1989, 63.
  9. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 407.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: 1988

  1. Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon with the author (New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989), 416.
  2. Playboy, October 1988, 74.
  3. Mark Hertsgaard, “Steal This Decade: The Last Interview,” Mother Jones, June 1990, 34.
  4. Hoffman with Silvers, Steal This Urine Test (New York: Penguin, 1987), 89.
  5. Ibid.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: 1989, THE FINAL DAYS

  1. The Guardian went out of business shortly thereafter.
  2. The Guardian, January 18, 1989, 19.
  3. The Guardian, February 22, 1989, 19.
  4. Mark Hertsgaard, “Steal This Decade: The Last Interview,” Mother Jones, June 1990, 34.
  5. Ibid., 48.
  6. Howard Goodman, “The Last Yippie,” Inside: The Quarterly of Jewish Life and Style, Summer 1989, 63.
  7. Coroner Report, Office of Thomas J. Rosko, MD, coroner of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 2.
  8. Conversations with Michael Waldron, September through November 1989.
  9. Conversation with Paula Scism, Abbie’s agent at American Program Bureau, June 1989.
  10. Conversations with Noah Kimmerling, Abbie’s accountant, April 19, 1989, and July 1993; conversations with Michael Waldron, September through November 1989.