Friday, May 29, 2015

The '60s+ An International Figure from Avondale Cincinnati, 1938-1994 Seasongood Pavilion Eden Park April 1969

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Seasongood Pavilion, Eden Park
April 1969

One of the citizens most feared by the US Government during the Vietnam War.

Jerry Rubin
Radical turned Capitalist














From above “Rubin showed himself to be a master organizer and publicist capable of transforming conventional protests into media happenings. In 1967 he was made project director of a flagging effort to demonstrate against the military in Washington. The novelist Norman Mailer later wrote that, "to call on Rubin was in effect to call upon the most militant, unpredictable, creative—therefore dangerous—hippie-oriented leader available to the New Left." What resulted was the celebrated March on the Pentagon, when some 75,000 protesters including Mailer, the poet Robert Lowell, critic Dwight Macdonald, Dr. Spock, Noam Chomsky, and many others rallied and railed against the war.
Even in his wildest days he had never been as radical or crazy as he used to seem, Rubin said over and over again, which anyone seeing the new, clean-cut, boyishly earnest Rubin of the post-revolutionary era could well believe. This was confirmed when he took up a new career as a stockbroker in 1980 with the brokerage firm of John Muir & Co., having discovered that capitalism was nicer than he had previously supposed.
In November, 1994, Rubin was hit by a car while jaywalking in Hollywood. He died 14 days later in a UCLA hospital bed. In a biography printed in the Los Angeles Times after Rubin's death, fellow Chicago Seven member and friend Tom Hayden stated: "Rubin was a great life force, full of spunk, courage, and wit. I think his willingness to defy authority for constructive purposes will be missed. Up to the end, he was defying authority."


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U.C. News Record about the event 










More photos from that day
 






The photographer was young in April 1969.
He could drive but not vote then.
Part of this era was known as "Free Love"
This photographer was not gregarious but did once, during a gathering at Eden Park, such as the Jerry Rubin "Happening"...while flying his kite... noticed that his kite had lost its tail.
He went up to someone and asked her if she could "spare some tail" (The pictured woman above was not this woman)....the woman who looked sort of like the one above decided she could, would and did :)...it was an interesting time to be very young.