Louis Abolafia (Oct. 30, 1995)
Carol
LOUIS ABOLAFIA, 54 WAS ON HIPPIE 'LOVE TICKET'
LOS ANGELES -- Louis Abolafia, an artist who ran for president against
Richard Nixon in 1968 as the naked Hippie ''love candidate,'' died
Monday of a drug overdose, authorities said. He was 54. The son of a
New York City florist, Mr. Abolafia was part of the Greenwich Village
art scene in the '60s and organized ''love-ins'' and ''happenings''
that combined music, poetry and audience participation.
He became a sort of hippie poster-boy for the New York press and ran
for president on the Hippie "love ticket." In a famous photo, he posed
naked with a strategically placed hat. His campaign slogan: "What have
I got to hide?"
"We were showing loving ways of bringing about unity and peace," he
said in 1987.
He moved to San Francisco in 1974 and helped produce the annual Exotic
Erotic Ball, an outrageous annual costume event. He moved to Los
Angeles several years ago.
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Washington Post, November 7, 1995, Final Ed., p. B5
LOUIS ABOLAFIA -- Artist and Presidential Candidate
Louis Abolafia, 54, an artist who ran for president against Richard
Nixon in 1968 as the naked Hippie "love candidate," died of a drug
overdose in Los Angeles on Oct. 30.
Part of the Greenwich Village art scene in the 1960s, he organized
"love-ins" and "happenings" that combined music, poetry and audience
participation. He ran for president on the Hippie "love ticket" and
claimed he received about 2 million votes. In a famous photo, he posed
naked with a strategically placed hat. His campaign slogan: "What have
I got to hide?"
Mr. Abolafia moved to San Francisco in 1974 and helped produce the
annual Exotic Erotic Ball, an outrageous annual costume event. He
moved to Los Angeles several years ago.
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Other mentions:
Houston Chronicle (TX) - November 4, 1995
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - November 4, 1995
Tulsa World (OK) - November 4, 1995
San Jose Mercury News (CA) - November 3, 1995
Miami Herald, The (FL) - November 3,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) -
November 3, 1995
St. Petersburg Times (FL) - November 3, 1995
Brad Ferguson
<jcm113...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:13:16 -0600, "A" <aa...@att.net> wrote:
>
> >x-no-archive: yes
> >
> >"Carol" <cobi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:d4bbe18c-9639-48fd...@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
> >> Boston Globe, Third Ed., November 3, 1995, p. 65
> >>
> >> LOUIS ABOLAFIA, 54 WAS ON HIPPIE 'LOVE TICKET'
> >>
> >> LOS ANGELES -- Louis Abolafia, an artist who ran for president against
> >> Richard Nixon in 1968 as the naked Hippie ''love candidate,'' died
> >> Monday of a drug overdose, authorities said. He was 54.
> >
> >
> > He had to be older than 54 if he ran in '68.
> > He would have been only 13 then,
>
> Artistic license.
>
> --
>
> John M.
This was an archive obit not obviously marked as such. Abolafia died
back in 1995. He was 27 when he "ran" for president in 1968. His
candidacy was street theater, but it made him fairly well known for a
brief while because his supporters put little campaign stickers all
over the city's buses and subways. Some of them were still up well
into the 1980s.
