April 22, 1969: Jerry Rubin, Cincinnati native and co-founder of the radically countercultural, anti-Vietnam group the Yippies, returns to his alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, to speak to 2,000 students and faculty members. He championed LSD use and said people in the U.S. “super-rationalize and accept their (disappointing lives) because they have been trained to accept it.”
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