Monday, Dec. 12, 1994
The Really Big Chill
Jerry Rubin's death, following Abbie Hoffman's five years ago, means only six members now remain of the Chicago Eight, the group of leftists who were famously tried for conspiring to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention. As for the living:
-- A lifelong pacifist, David Dellinger survives on grant money and lecturing fees, and lives in a house off a dirt road in rural Vermont.
-- The former Mr. Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, is a California state senator from Los Angeles. He has run unsuccessfully for Governor and for U.S. Senator.
-- During the '70s, Rennie Davis sold insurance and lived in an ashram. Today he's a right-winger and heads an environmental think tank in Boulder, Colorado.
-- After working for years at a political direct-mail firm, Lee Weiner is currently director of special projects for the Anti-Defamation League in New York City.
-- John Froines is an environmental professor at UCLA and director of the university's occupational health center.
-- Former Black Panther Bobby Seale is a community organizer in Philadelphia as well as the author of Barbecue'n with Bobby, a cookbook.