Yippies co-founder Krassner dead at 87

Updated July 22 2019 - 8:43am, first published 8:39am
Yippie party co-founder Paul Krassner became a stand-up comedian, celebrity interviewer and author.
Yippie party co-founder Paul Krassner became a stand-up comedian, celebrity interviewer and author.

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, has died aged 87.

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