The Nation - News from June 11, 1989
Nearly 500 political activists and aging flower children gathered in a state park in Pennsylvania to pay a belated tribute to Abbie Hoffman, the clown prince of the 1960s anti-war movement. Hoffman, who committed suicide April 12 in his Solebury Township, Pa., apartment, was eulogized in speech, poetry and song as an American patriot during the memorial service in Washington Crossing State Park in Bucks County. Among those attending the service were lawyer William M. Kunstler and Chicago 7 trial defendants Bobby Seale and David Dellinger. Kunstler defended the Chicago 7 on charges they orchestrated the violent protests that erupted outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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