He interviewed such celebrity acquaintances as authors Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller and the late conservative pundit Andrew Breitbart. “He doesn’t waste time,” longtime friend and fellow counterculture personality Wavy Gravy once said of him. 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. Hoffman and Rubin, but not Krassner, were among the so-called “Chicago 7” charged with inciting riots at 1968’s chaotic Democratic National Convention.īy the end of the decade, most of the group’s members had faded into obscurity. 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. He was 87 and had recently transitioned to hospice care after an illness, Dawson said. Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, Holly Krassner Dawson told The Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES - Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Yippies, died Sunday in Southern California, his daughter said. View Original Notice ? 1960s prankster Paul Krassner, who named Yippies, dies at 87īy Christopher Weber and John Rogers | Associated Press

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