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Judy Gumbo, Yippie Activist, Dies at 83

By Drooid · Sep 20, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC · How we work

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Judy Gumbo died of dementia on Sept. 14, 2026, at age 83 in Berkeley, California.
She was a longtime Yippie activist who staged a Vietnam-war protest in a Vietcong costume in Moscow.
The FBI surveilled her and broke into her home.
She detailed the FBI break-in in her 2022 memoir Yippie Girl.
She helped purchase a 150-pound pig for 1968 Democratic Convention protest with Stew Albert, Jerry Rubin and Phil Ochs.

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Judy Gumbo died of dementia on Sept. 14, 2026, at age 83 in Berkeley, California.
She was a longtime Yippie activist who staged a Vietnam-war protest in a Vietcong costume in Moscow.
The FBI surveilled her and broke into her home.
She detailed the FBI break-in in her 2022 memoir Yippie Girl.
She helped purchase a 150-pound pig for 1968 Democratic Convention protest with Stew Albert, Jerry Rubin and Phil Ochs.