Trading Floor: Krassner and Hoffman Rubin

trading floor: He was 87 and had recently transitioned to hospice care after an illness, Dawson said, according to The Japan Times. She didn't say what the illness was. ; The Yippies, who included Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and were otherwise known as the Youth International Party, briefly became notorious for such stunts as running a pig for president and throwing dollar bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, Holly Krassner Dawson told The Associated Press. Hoffman and Rubin, but not Krassner, were among the Chicago 7 charged with inciting riots at 1968's chaotic Democratic National Convention. But not Krassner, who constantly reinvented himself, becoming a public speaker, freelance writer, stand-up comedian, celebrity interviewer and author of nearly a dozen books. By the end of the decade, most of the group's members had faded into obscurity. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.