Posted on 01/31/2006 7:12:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Stew Albert, a co-founder of the Youth International Party, whose members were more commonly known as Yippies, died Monday of liver cancer. He was 66.
Albert was clubbed by police during the 1968 anti-war Democratic National Convention riot and was named as an unindicted coconspirator at the Chicago 7 trial.
The Yippies in 1968 advanced a pig as candidate for president and in 1970 invaded Disneyland for a day. In 1970, Albert ran for sheriff of Alameda County, Calif., but lost.
Albert moved to Portland in 1984 and continued to carry an idealistic torch for the 1960s. "I came here to bring the holy spirit of the '60s to this younger generation," he said in 2000.
His 2005 memoir was titled "Who the Hell is Stew Albert?" because of a question Howard Stern posed on his radio show. "It's less a case of local boy makes good, more a case of local boy makes trouble," Albert said.
Albert was born Dec. 4, 1939, in Brooklyn, N.Y., an only child. He graduated from Pace University and in 1964 began organizing against the Vietnam War.
In 1988, he attended a 20-year reunion in Chicago of 1968 protesters.
"I imagine Americans secretly miss the passion of my generation," he wrote of that experience.
In 1996, Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley, invited him to Chicago with his pal Tom Hayden, a former roommate, for a day of reconciliation.
Albert was co-author with his wife of "The Sixties Papers" anthology. He ran the Yippie Reading Room online and continued to blog until the day before his death.
He is survived by his wife, Judy Gumbo Albert, and daughter, Jessica Pearl Albert. A funeral service is scheduled Wednesday.
Stew? LOL
Fight the hippies alert!
And his wife, Gumbo!
And he married a girl named Gumbo.
Yeah, that's it Stew--we really miss your passionate arrogance and self-importance.
If you bunk down with pigs, AP will call you "idealistic."
crap, ya beat me.
He went to 'The stye in the sky'.
And if you're conservative, AP will call you a 'firebrand,' a 'rabble-rouser' or an 'iconoclast.' McCarthy references are optional.
Stew is survived by his brothers, Biscuit and Gravy...
I do not know this man, nor do I reflect upon his politics.
I do know that dying of liver cancer is quite exruciating, based on research.
I may not favor his views or published statements, but I do not belittle his suffering or disregard the sadness of his family.
Yippie ping
Never heard of him...lol.
WHO is (was) this freak???
He died on the same day SCAlito got confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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