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Sep 24, 2019 · Here’s why the Chicago Eight trial, that opened on September 24, 1969, was such a big deal. 1. The Chicago Eight were the first people tried under the first federal anti-riot law.
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Sep 24, 2019 · Fifty years later, here’s why the Chicago Eight trial that opened on September 24, 1969 was such a big deal. Read entire article at History Channel.
These are some of the questions that surround one of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, the 1969-70 trial of eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. ...
Aug 15, 2016 · The contentious, political, and cultural conflict of the sixties was exemplified in the events of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the civil disturbances and the subsequent Chicago 8 Trial. Even before the August convention arrived in Chicago, the American people felt the turbulence of 1968.
These are some of the questions that surround one of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, the 1969-70 trial of eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
The trial of the Chicago Eight begins in Chicago before Judge Julius Hoffman. October 29 to November 3, 1969: Because of his courtroom outbursts, Bobby Seale is ordered bound and gagged. November 5, 1969: The trial of Seale is severed from the trial of what now becomes the Chicago Seven. February 14, 1970: The case goes to the jury. February 18 ...
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Nov 16, 2009 · The trial for eight antiwar activists charged with inciting violent demonstrations at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago before Judge Julius Hoffman.
