The Chicago Seven

After the 1968 Democratic Convention and Police Riot in Chicago, the Nixon White House decided to prosecute eight men for attempting to disrupt the convention and the city of Chicago. Most of the eight defendants were Jewish, as were their defense counsel, William Kuntsler and Leonard Weinglass. So was the federal judge, Julius Hoffman. Eventually the case against Black Panther Bobby Seale was severed and the remaining defendants became known as The Chicago Seven. Fifty years later, CBI’s Adult Education Committee presents a discussion of the trial, a circus that was, in the words of defendant Abbie Hoffman, “a shande fur de Goyim.”

Free and open to the public.