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 8: Witnesses, Continued](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Norman Mailer comments on trial, it's concept and the charges of conspiracy. Wesley Pomorov speaking on his testimony. Jesse Jackson on the significance of this trial, the development of a military state, and the trial in reference to the black community. Tom Hayden and Staughton Lynd on parallels between the events in Chicago, the antiwar movement and the American revolution.
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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