Director Aaron Sorkin takes a lot of liberties with historical facts (and leaves out some hilarious bits, like poet Allen Ginsberg’s testimony, that would have made for a showstopper) but The Trial of the Chicago 7 generally succeeds in conveying the sense of generational score-settling the court battle came to signify. and Vietnam still devouring thousands of young people-the trial came to encapsulate the tensions tearing the country’s social fabric asunder. Johnson’s presidency-with the US reeling from the assassinations of John F.
As anti-war, civil rights, and hippie activists involved in the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Seven (theoretically eight) were picked as convenient scapegoats after the unrest was crushed at the behest of Mayor Richard Daley. If you're not an American boomer, the juxtaposition of the city of Chicago and number seven might mean little to you, but the formula stands for one of the causes célèbre of the Sixties.
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