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Jerry Rubin was the co-founder of the
Yippies, a undefinable group of pranksters who protested the Vietnam War by staging
elaborate, publicity getting demonstrations. Jerry grew up in Cincinnatti, Ohio and
attended the University of Cincinnatti. Like many of the Vietnam era radicals he
began his protesting career in the Civil Rights movement, though not in the South.
His very first protest took place in Berkeley, California in 1964. He walked the
picket line to protest against a local grocer who refused to hire blacks. He
and Abbie Hoffman, after founding the Youth International Party (Yippies), organized many
dramatic demonstrations, including the "exorcism of the Pentagon" in which he,
Hoffman, and others tried to levitate the Pentagon with mental force. As a Yippie
he organized the disastrous protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in
1968. He was as dramatic in the courtroom as any of the "Chicago Seven",
and he even brought a toy M-16 rifle to the proceedings. He played a role in
nominated a pig named "Pigasus" for President in 1968 as well.
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The National Guard protecting the Pentagon from a demonstration organized
by Jerry Rubing and other Yippies. |
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