EXCLUSIVE: It’s been more than 40 years, but filmmaker Robert Greenwald remembers the call that came in from a man on the run.
The caller, one of America’s most famous fugitives, used an assumed name.“Robert, it’s Barry,” the man said in a gravelly voice.
It wasn’t long before Greenwald discerned he was speaking with Abbie Hoffman, the “radical” leftist whose conviction in the celebrated Chicago Seven trial had been vacated.
But a pending drug charge had prompted Hoffman to go on the lam.“He would never say ‘Abbie’ [on the phone] because he was underground and assumed all the phones were tapped,” Greenwald recalls. “But I figured out pretty quickly that ‘Barry’ was Abbie.”After that initial call Greenwald and Hoffman got to know each other
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