Comedian-activist Dick Gregory, 1980

By Joe Gromelski
Published: February 4, 2012

Ed Reavis ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, September 8, 1980: Comedian and activist Dick Gregory waits at the Frankfurt airport's ticket counter as he prepares to return to Boston for emergency dental work. Gregory had been in Iran on a 4½-month hunger strike aimed at convincing the Ayatollah Khomeini's government to release the American hostages.

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