World & Nation
The trial began on Sept. 24, 1969, 13 months after violence broke out during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, shocking the nation.
Oct. 24, 2016
Franklin McMahon’s pictures from the iconic trial that embodied the turmoil of the 1960s have been bought by a city museum.
Sept. 30, 2007
Thomas Foran, 76, prosecutor in the Chicago Seven conspiracy case of 1969 and 1970.
Aug. 12, 2000
Movies
Brett Morgen mixes animation and current music in telling the much-mythologized Chicago Seven story.
Feb. 28, 2008
As the nation watched in late 1969 and early 1970, John Froines and his co-defendants turned the Chicago 7 trial into a theater of the absurd protesting the U.S. political system.
Jan. 30, 1990
Former Chicago Seven anti-war activist Jerry Rubin was reported in critical condition Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center after he was hit by a car while jaywalking in Westwood, Los Angeles police said.
Nov. 16, 1994
Arthur Kinoy, the short, bald lawyer and educator who loomed like Hercules over civil rights causes from the trials of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the anti-Vietnam Chicago Seven to cases involving racial integration and federal wiretapping, has died.
Sept. 22, 2003
They were left-wing activists whose courtroom antics and commitment to political change reflected a generation of angry youths disillusioned by a nation in undeclared war thousands of miles away.
July 17, 1988
Obituaries
Van Vlahakis, eco-friendly entrepreneur; Lou Hudson, NBA All-Star; Sue Townsend, author of ‘Adrian Mole’ diaries; Richard Hoggart, historian testified in ‘Lady Chatterley’ trial; Jim Flaherty, Canadian finance minister
April 11, 2014
Awards
From the Trump-taunting Borat to his subversive Abbie Hoffman, Sacha Baron Cohen is a modern revolutionary
Jan. 12, 2021