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
1 Documents Found
![Chicago Conspiracy Trial - Part 1: The Trial of Bobby Seale](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Bobby Seale on Racism and fascism in America, what the trial represents, war on the constitutional Rights of Black and Brown people, Warren Kimbrow and Sergeant Vincent De Rosa.
Charles Garry on the trial and climate of judicial prejudice, the trial's impact on the country and the genocide of the Black Panther Party.
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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