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The Trial of the Chicago 7..Now on Netflix...Sasha Baron Cohen as Abby Hoffman [View all]
Excellent, smart, funny, and disturbing..actual footage included in the making by Aaron Sorkin..although only half way thru, I can feel the racism in the courtroom jump off the screen..1968, the shooting of MLK, Bobby Kennedy..and the escalation of the VN war, by way of the increase in the draft numbers ..DNC convention Chicago IL
I have included links - Where are they now..
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12940050/who-chicago-7-where-they-now
and was Bobby Seal really bound and gagged in courtroom...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trial-chicago-7-fact-check-162653175.html
BTW..what happened in '68, is happening in so many cities this year..
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