Yippie Reaction: Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars.

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Yippie Reaction: Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars.
Yippie Reaction: Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars.
Artist/Maker
DateMay 9, 1970
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsSheet: 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm) Image: 8 5/8 × 7 3/16 in. (21.9 × 18.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.250
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Markings Recto, bottom margin (transferred typed adhesive label): "(WX17) WASHINGTON, MAY 9 -- YIPPIE REACTION -- Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, / uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The / cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars. / (AP WIREPHOTO) (SEE AP AAA WIRE STORY) (pm71415stf) 1970"
Verso, center (pasted newspaper illustration): "16on 16P6 tease 81 97 / Student Lecture Forum / presents / ABBIE!"
Verso, bottom left corner, sideways (typed adhesive label): "8x10 / 600391"
Verso, bottom right corner (typed red sticker): "79"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "ANTI-CHI-083"
Speech Reaction: Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman smashes a television set after watching President Nixon's news conference. The television was set up on the Washington Monument grounds and watched by demonstrators who arrived early for antiwar protest.
Speech Reaction: Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman smashes a television set after watching President Nixon's news conference. The television was set up on the Washington Monument grounds and watched by demonstrators who arrived early for antiwar protest.
Unknown artist, American
Date: September 4, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.251
Promise Peace: Yippie Jerry Rubin, left, and his lieutenants announce plans for nonviolent activities during the July 10-14th Democratic National Convention. Other Youth International Party leaders in Miami Beach Tuesday were, from left: Patty Oldenburg, partly hidden Ed Sanders and Abbie Hoffman. Rubin points to a bird of peace sculpture.
Promise Peace: Yippie Jerry Rubin, left, and his lieutenants announce plans for nonviolent activities during the July 10-14th Democratic National Convention. Other Youth International Party leaders in Miami Beach Tuesday were, from left: Patty Oldenburg, partly hidden Ed Sanders and Abbie Hoffman. Rubin points to a bird of peace sculpture.
Unknown artist, American
Date: June 28, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.248
At a news conference in the Federal Building in Chicago. Yippie leader Jerry Rubin makes a point by pounding the desk. He appeared at the conference with six other defendants, charged with conspiracy to incite mob action at the Democratic Convention, who are standing behind him. They are (from left) John Froines, Abbie Hoffman, Lee Weiner, David Dellinger, Thomas Hayden and Rennard Davis. The eighth defendant, Bobby Seale, is in jail. The girl seated with Rubin was introduced as Nancy Kurshan, Rubin's wife.
At a news conference in the Federal Building in Chicago. Yippie leader Jerry Rubin makes a point by pounding the desk. He appeared at the conference with six other defendants, charged with conspiracy to incite mob action at the Democratic Convention, who are standing behind him. They are (from left) John Froines, Abbie Hoffman, Lee Weiner, David Dellinger, Thomas Hayden and Rennard Davis. The eighth defendant, Bobby Seale, is in jail. The girl seated with Rubin was introduced as Nancy Kurshan, Rubin's wife.
James "Jim" Palmer
Date: October 8, 1969
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.132
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Date: December 3, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.294
Yippie Leader: Jerry Rubin (right), wearing a RE-ELECT NIXON button, expresses himself to a TV newsman about the upcoming Democratic convention on the lawn of Conventional Hall. With Rubin was Stew Albert. Both are leaders of the Youth International Party. They said they were sent to Miami Beach by the Yippies to survey the convention site. Rubin predicted that 10,000 nudes would march down Washington Avenue in front of convention hall when the Democrats convene in July.
Yippie Leader: Jerry Rubin (right), wearing a RE-ELECT NIXON button, expresses himself to a TV newsman about the upcoming Democratic convention on the lawn of Conventional Hall. With Rubin was Stew Albert. Both are leaders of the Youth International Party. They said they were sent to Miami Beach by the Yippies to survey the convention site. Rubin predicted that 10,000 nudes would march down Washington Avenue in front of convention hall when the Democrats convene in July.
Joe Sebo
Date: February 16, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.163
Burn Summons: Tom Hayden, left, and Jerry Rubin reduce to ashes subpoenas to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in what they termed gestures of contempt. The two, who figured prominantely in the recent Chicago street demonstrations, said that in spite of the burning of the summons they will appear as requested before the committee in Washington October 1. Hayden is founder of the Students for a Democratic Society; Rubin a self-styled Yippie revolutionist.
Burn Summons: Tom Hayden, left, and Jerry Rubin reduce to ashes subpoenas to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in what they termed gestures of contempt. The two, who figured prominantely in the recent Chicago street demonstrations, said that in spite of the burning of the summons they will appear as requested before the committee in Washington October 1. Hayden is founder of the Students for a Democratic Society; Rubin a self-styled Yippie revolutionist.
Edward Kitch
Date: September 23, 1968
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.104
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: August 13, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.240
Accused of Conspiracy: John R. Froines, right, a University of Oregon professor, surrendered himself to federal authorities Friday in Portland. He is accused of teaching the use of incendiary devices and conspiring to cause riots at the Democratic National Convention. With him are his wife Ann and his lawyer, her but Titus, a university law school professor, Portland Oregon.
Accused of Conspiracy: John R. Froines, right, a University of Oregon professor, surrendered himself to federal authorities Friday in Portland. He is accused of teaching the use of incendiary devices and conspiring to cause riots at the Democratic National Convention. With him are his wife Ann and his lawyer, her but Titus, a university law school professor, Portland Oregon.
Unknown artist, American
Date: March 21, 1969
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.253
Ordered to Leave England: "Yippie" leader Jerry Rubin makes clenched fist salute as he's taken in police car, escorted by a Special Branch detective, here November 13th, Rubin and a companion, Stewart Albert, have been advised they will be deported unless they leave Britain voluntarily.
Ordered to Leave England: "Yippie" leader Jerry Rubin makes clenched fist salute as he's taken in police car, escorted by a Special Branch detective, here November 13th, Rubin and a companion, Stewart Albert, have been advised they will be deported unless they leave Britain voluntarily.
Unknown artist, American
Date: November 13, 1970
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2024.21.247
Yippie leader Jerry Rubin rips off his jurists robe in front of a University of Utah crowd in Salt Lake City, Utah as part of his defiance of the nation's legal system.
Yippie leader Jerry Rubin rips off his jurists robe in front of a University of Utah crowd in Salt Lake City, Utah as part of his defiance of the nation's legal system.
Unknown artist, American
Date: February 8, 1970
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2024.21.255
Chilly Recess From Conspiracy Trial: Four of the "Chicago Seven," charged with conspiracay to incite riots at time of 1968 Democratic Convention, emerge for lunch today bundled against near-zero cold. Earlier they had heard Mayor Richard J. Daley questioned by the defense attorney. Left to right: Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, TOm Hayden, and John Froines, Chicago.
Chilly Recess From Conspiracy Trial: Four of the "Chicago Seven," charged with conspiracay to incite riots at time of 1968 Democratic Convention, emerge for lunch today bundled against near-zero cold. Earlier they had heard Mayor Richard J. Daley questioned by the defense attorney. Left to right: Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, TOm Hayden, and John Froines, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: January 6, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.242
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Unknown artist
Date: May 29, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.184