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 4: Conspiracy Defendants, Continued
Lee Weiner Part 2: Plans if he doesn't go to prison to work in Women's Liberation struggle. Abbie Hoffman on his very being an lifestyle on trial; Dramatization in the court room of an American symbol; The ideology behind events in Chicago; What he expects in the trial; the illegitimacy of US judicial system; Attacking the use of contempt. John Friones' opinion of the trial and hopes for further action.
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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