In 1986, 15 people were charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct for protesting CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among these protesters were 50 year old Abbie Hoffman and 19 year old Amy Carter. Abbie Hoffman was a social activist, who had already been arrest 41 times. He was known for his theatrical protests, once attempting, and claiming to have, levitated the Pentagon. In 1968 he was prosecuted as one the the Chicago 7 on charges of conspiracy to incite a riot. All charges were overturned in appeals. By the mid '80s, Hoffman had already gone into hiding and resurfaced, returning to his social activism, although finding the cultural climate very different from the '60s. more
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