-Caveat Lector-
Note: says below that Abbie Hoffman committed suicide but
that is disputed by many. e.g. Rodney Stich in his book,
"Defrauding America."
>From USA Today
12/31/98- Updated 07:39 AM ET
The Nation's Homepage
Abbie Hoffman's wife dies at age 56
SAN FRANCISCO - Anita Hoffman, who helped husband Abbie Hoffman plot
the most memorable pranks of the Yippie movement and later kept him
hidden for years from the FBI, has died of breast cancer. She was 56.
Hoffman died Sunday afternoon at a friend's home in San Francisco,
three years after she learned she had cancer, said her sister, Truusje
Kushner.
''She felt she had a very full life,'' her sister said. ''As horrible
as it was that she had this fatal illness, it wasn't as if she hadn't
lived. She felt she had a full life and no regrets.''
Hoffman helped Abbie disrupt the New York Stock Exchange by throwing
money on the trading floor, encircle the Pentagon in a protest against
the Vietnam War and plan the demonstrations in Chicago during the 1968
Democratic National Convention.
In one of her most audacious moves, she went to Algeria to meet with
Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and try to forge a coalition
between the Panthers and the Yippies.
''She was shocked by Cleaver's dictatorial and misogynist behavior,''
biographer Marty Jezer said, and ''escaped Cleaver's authority by
climbing out a window, talking her way through customs and flying to
Paris.''
Hoffman may be most remembered, however, for how she supported Hoffman
for years while he lived underground to escape drug charges, raising
their son America.
''The FBI was crawling around everywhere,'' Ms. Kushner said. ''She
for years was bringing up their son and she was Abbie's conduit to the
world, using mail drops to send him money and making sure he was taken
care of.''
Born Anita Kushner and raised in a middle-class Jewish family in New
York, she was a civil rights activist long before she knew Hoffman.
She had worked to document police brutality in New York and was a
supporter of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
The two met when he was running Liberty House, a New York store that
sold crafts made by Poor People's Cooperatives in Mississippi. They
began living together two weeks later.
Hoffman continued helping her husband, even after he began seeing
another woman while living in Canada. He committed suicide in 1989.
Hoffman also was a freelance writer and novelist. She wrote a memoir,
''To America with Love: Letters from the Underground,'' and later,
under a pseudonym, she wrote a novel titled ''Trashing,'' Ms. Kushner
said.
Recently, as cancer slowed her down, she lived in Petaluma, selling
rare books, creating content for a computer company and suggesting
script rewrites for ''Steal This Movie,'' a film based on the life of
the Hoffmans that is being finished this spring.
''I think she was an enormous force in his life in every way:
personally, romantically, as soldiers in arms,'' said Robert
Greenwald, who is directing and producing the film.
Survivors include her younger sister, her son and her mother.
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