| What did it all mean? Was
the Chicago Seven
Trial merely, as one commentator suggested, "a monumental
non-event"?
Was it, as others argue, an important battle for the hearts and minds
of
the American people? Or is it best seen as a symbol of the
conflicts
of values that characterized the late sixties? These are some of
the questions that surround one of the most unusual courtroom
spectacles
in American history, the 1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of
conspiring
to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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