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 2: Conspiracy Defendants](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Dave Dellinger on Chicago Mayor Daley's Revenge; Government persecution and attempts to squash rebellion against the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movement in reference to indictment of leaders and tactics of co-option and intimidation; The corruption of an acquittal driven defense; The Spock Trial and expressing revolutionary consciousness through political trials.
Jerry Rubin on thought crimes against the government via conspiracy of intent; eating lunch with Judge Julius Hoffman at the Standard Club.
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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