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.

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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.
Artist/Maker
DateSeptember 4, 1970
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsSheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 8 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (21 × 17.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.251
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Markings Recto, bottom margin (transferred typed adhesive label): "(WX8) WASHINGTON, May 9--SPEECH REACTION--Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman / smashes a television set last night after watching President Nixon's / news conference. The television set was set up on the Washington / Monument grounds and watched by demonstrators who arrived early for / today's antiwar protest. (AP Wirephoto) (rh71030str-ms) 1970"
Verso, lower center (red ink stamp): "This picture, and all of the rights therin, is the property of AP/Wide World Photos. It may be / used only for the purposes of one time reproduction in the U.S.A. when authorized by the owner. / Any use of the picture, whether such use is currently known or developed subsequent to the date / of this agreement is prohibited unless expressly authorized by the owner. This picture shall not / be altered in any fashion except as expressly authorized by the owner. It is not to be used outside / the continental United States without permission of AP/Wide World Photos. It may not be used in / such a manner as to violate the rights of any person, firm or corporation. It may not be used for / advertising or purposes of trade unless used with consent of each living person depicted, or if a / minor, of his or her parent or guardian shall be obtained, such consent to run to the owners / and the licensee. If any use shall violate, or shall be claimed to violate, the rights of any person, firm, / or corporation, the licensee agrees to save harmless the owner from all liability, including reasonable / counsel fees and expenses, which the owner may incur by reason thereof. / Permission to make a one time reproduction does not include the right to authorize others to make / any further use of the picture. ANY COPYING AND/OR MAKING OF EXTRA PRINTS IS FORBIDDEN. / The picture MUST NOT carry owner's credit if it is used for advertising for for purposes of trade; otherwise the following credit MUST be printed: AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS"
Verso, diagonally (watermark): "THIS PAPER / MANUFACTURED / BY KODAK"
Inscribed Verso, lower left, sideways (pencil): "ANTI-CHI-095"
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.
Unknown artist, American
Date: May 9, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.250
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
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
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
Sit down protest: As police came to stop youth from inciting other demonstrators, he threw himself on the ground and now is carried to the wagon by police, 74th and Lowe, Chicago.
Sit down protest: As police came to stop youth from inciting other demonstrators, he threw himself on the ground and now is carried to the wagon by police, 74th and Lowe, Chicago.
Date: August 2, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.283
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
Hoffman with Protesters: Activist Abbie Hoffman is shown on the ground at the Bicks County Courthouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on Monday. They are dramatizing opposition to the Point Pleasant water diversion project
Hoffman with Protesters: Activist Abbie Hoffman is shown on the ground at the Bicks County Courthouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on Monday. They are dramatizing opposition to the Point Pleasant water diversion project
Date: January 17, 1983
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2022.15.293
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Date: October 19, 1967
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto with added pigment
Object number: 2022.15.259
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
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Date: March 12, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.265
Photograph by John Bentham.
Carrizo y Tele (Reed and Television)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Date: 1976 (printed c. 1977, published 1979)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1980.2.1
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Date: May 2, 1962
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.262