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and a free store on the Lower East Side (David Farber, Chicago 6; Hoffman, Woodstock151-153). Hoffman became famous for the chaos he caused on the floor of the New YorkStock Exchange in August, 1967, when he and some of his friends threw one-dollar billsfrom the public gallery down to the traders below.Like Hoffman, Jerry Rubin (1938-1994), came from a middle-class Jewishbackground and was adept at creating eye-catching demonstrations. He grew up inCincinnati and attended Oberlin College and the University of Cincinnati before workingas a reporter. In 1964 he dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley, sociologygraduate program and instead threw himself into the Free Speech Movement. In 1965 heparticipated in the Vietnam War teach-in at Berkeley, helped to found the activistorganization the Vietnam Day Committee, and entered the Berkeley mayoral race on aBlack Power and anti-war platform (Viorst 424-428; David Farber, Chicago 8-12). Rubinmet Hoffman when David Dellinger, chairman of Mobe, invited him to help organize theOctober, 1967, March on the Pentagon.Both Abbie Hoffman and Rubin were charismatic, articulate, and media-savvy.They were eager to speak to journalists about their politics and often inserted themselvesat the front line of confrontations. Both gave speeches, wrote prolifically for thealternative media, and published books on the Yippie phenomenon. Because of their highprofile Abbie Hoffman and Rubin overshadow the other Yippies in the historical record.But in addition to these two radicals, there were about a dozen dedicated Yippies whohelped in the founding and early success of the movement.33