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Jerry Rubin and Paul Krassner were revolutionary hippies together in the 1960s, then their paths diverged. Krassner looks back at how the times changed and reviews a new visual biography of Rubin.
In early 1968, Abbie Hoffman said to Jerry Rubin, his partner in flamboyant protest, “I hate America enough to run the risk of getting killed.” “No, no, no!” Rubin answered. “You don’t ...
Jerry Rubin gets a bad rap. He was a lot of things: an activist, a provocateur, a showman who orchestrated media blitzes with the expert precision. But for a lot of people familiar with Rubin through ...
Activist Jerry Rubin, aka "Rockin' Rubin," bops all day long at the Third Street Promenade, relentlessly promoting. In 1957 there was a catchy rock ‘n' roll song, ...
Jerry Rubin, now 46, returned to public attention in the 1970s when he began working for a brokerage house in New York City. Involved in the”awareness movement” of the `70s, Rubin sponsored ...
Jerry Rubin smiles as he walks down the steps barefoot outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In early summer of 1978 my agent asked me if I would be ...
Jerry Rubin, the firebrand 1960s radical who used to preach distrust of “anyone over 30,” died last night in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 56. The cause was cardiac arrest, a hospital ...
Jerry Rubin, 56, an anti-Vietnam War activist and a Chicago Conspiracy Seven trial defendant, went from selling revolution in the 1960s to peddling stocks, business opportunities and a nutritional ...
I am at lunch with Jerry Rubin, talking about Robert Blake. Rubin is saying, “He couldn’t have done it, no way! The man I knew wouldn’t kill anyone!” He is so worked up about it, he can ...
Gerald “Jerry” Rubin, who went from the William Morris Agency to become VP Business Affairs at CBS and was an influential longtime entertainment lawyer, has died. He was 93.
Jerry Rubin is finally getting ready for retirement after 15 years of leading and growing Jewish Vocational Service into the largest workforce training organization in Boston.