Chicago Conspiracy Trial
One of the most unusual courtroom
spectacles
in American history, this collection contains materials from the 1969-70 trial of eight radicals accused of
conspiring
to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Documents
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![Chicago Conspiracy Trial - Part 7: Defense Witnesses](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
James Kunan on prosecution's errors, defenses objections overruled; The prosecution's legal games; Judge's violation of judicial process. Jane Kennedy from the Medical Committee for Human Rights on the courts censorship of her testimony and her impressions of the jury. Arlo Guthrie on his impressions of the trial and testimony. Renault Robinson on Chicago Police Department's training for protests geared towards a show of force and the political climate of dissent intolerance. Lee Edmunson's narration of Chicago events and the prosecution's sustained censorship of his testimony. Don Duncan on the initial planning sessions for convention.
National distribution of these tapes as through activist networks in preparation for the TDA ("The Day After") demonstration to be initiated the day following the announcement of the verdicts by Judge Julius Hoffman (February 18, 1970_. Demonstrations broke out in a number of cities on February 19; a police riot led to several dozen arrests at the Westwood office of Bank of America in Lost Angeles. Demonstrators reported that undercover plainclothes officers, without warning, physically attacked specific targeted individuals with blackjacks, brass knuckles and other weapons.
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