Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dressed in a splotched T-shirt and red corduroys, Yippie Jerry Rubin was in Cambridge yesterday, promoting his new book...
HOROVITZ sees the Chicago 7 trial as a kind of theatre, with its emphasis on role-playing, or at least he sees Jerry Rubin as an entertainter. "He is a smart guy when he says things like, 'Fuck is the only word we've got because no one will print it and no cop will say it in a courtroom.' But he's silly when he says the revolution is sex and music. If that's all it is, I've had that revolution and emerged victoriously. His sense of theatre is fantastic. He writes good material for himself. Jerry...
...participants posed some problems. Defendant Abbie Hoffman was particularly difficult to draw because of his changeable facial expressions. Defendant Jerry Rubin complained to Artist-Reporter Franklin McMahon that he was made to look menacing while Assistant Prosecutor Dick Schultz came out "cherubic." Judge Hoffman had a word with Marcia Danits, an artist for CBS's Chicago affiliate WBBM-TV. "He told me his wife didn't like me because I didn't draw him pretty enough. I felt sorry for him, so I did one in his chambers, and he came out looking much better...
Finally, the jury reached a verdict. For all seven defendants, on the conspiracy counts of the indictment: not guilty. For five of them-Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin-on the count that they had crossed state lines and acted individually to encourage a riot: guilty as charged. The other two defendants, John Froines and Lee Weiner, were acquitted on the second count as well...
...trying to hold back the tide of history, you are trying to hold back a second American revolution." Abbie Hoffman: "I'm an outlaw. I always knew free speech wasn't allowed in present-day America." Hayden: "They were bound to put us away." Rubin: "This is the happiest moment of my life." Davis: "My jury will be in the streets tomorrow all over the country." Defense Attorney Kunstler protested that Judge Hoffman was "wrong legally and morally" to sentence the defendants only two days after the verdict. "To say I am morally wrong," Hoffman replied, "can only...