Anti-war activist Tom Hayden dies

Tom Hayden, the well-known 1960s anti-war activist and California politician, died Sunday. He was 76. Hayden took part in the freedom rides during the Civil Rights movement and joined unauthorized delegations to North Vietnam in 1965 and 1967. During the second trip, North Vietnamese leaders asked him to bring home three prisoners of war. A year later, Hayden earned national notoriety as one of the Chicago 7, a group of activists tried for organizing anti-war protests that turned violent at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Hayden’s conviction for crossing state lines to incite a riot was later overturned. In the early 1970s, he met and married fellow anti-war activist Jane Fonda, who helped finance his political career. Voters elected him to the state Assembly in 1982, sending him to the state Senate 10 years later. He later lost bids for governor and mayor of Los Angeles. Hayden and Fonda had one son, Troy. He had another son, Liam, with his current wife, Barbara Williams.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.