THE CHICAGO EIGHT TRIAL: A MONUMENTAL NON EVENT
ABSTRACT THE CHICAGO EIGHT TRIAL is known as one of the most unsusual 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. Following the April assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, riots erupted in cities leaving people…
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