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That time Rick McGinnis photographed Abbie Hoffman

December 8, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

(Rick McGinnis: 1989)
(Rick McGinnis: 1989)

Rick McGinnis writes:

Hoffman was in a prickly, defensive mood for much of the press conference, and quite a few of my frames capture him with this snarling expression. For not the first time I couldn’t help but wonder how people who talked so much about “peace and love” confronted the world with such poorly-concealed anger and even contempt.

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