The Chicago conspiracy trial and the press / Nick Sharman.
Sharman, Nick, author.
2016
KF224.C47
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Title
The Chicago conspiracy trial and the press / Nick Sharman.
Author
Sharman, Nick, author.
ISBN
9781137559388 (electronic book)
1137559381 (electronic book)
9781137573872
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
9781137573872
Call Number
KF224.C47
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.773/1102
Summary
This book analyzes the newspaper coverage of one of America's most famous and dramatic trials-the trial of the "Chicago 8." Covering a five month period from September 1969 to February 1970 the book considers the way eight radical activists including Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, antiwar activists Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, and Rennie Davis, and leading Yippies, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin are represented in the press. How did the New York Times represent Judge Hoffman's decision to chain and gag Bobby Seale in the courtroom for demanding his right to represent himself? To what extent did the press adequately describe the injustice visited on the defendants in the trial by the presiding Judge, Julius J Hoffman? The author aims to answer these questions and demonstrate the press's reluctance to criticize Judge Hoffman in the case until the evidence of his misconduct of the trial became overwhelming.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: "My wishes are that a lawyer respect the court": Initial representation of the trial and the lawyers' arrest
Chapter 2: "The Orderly Administration of Justice": The Chaining and Gagging of defendant Bobby Seale
Chapter 3: "The Use of Vile and Insulting Language": The Voice of White Radicals
Chapter 4: "You are a disgrace sir, I say you are a disgrace, I really say you are a disgrace": The Voice of Anti-War: Rennie Davis
Chapter 5: "The Exclusion of Authority": Ramsey Clark's Muted Evidence
Chapter 6: The Summation on the Conclusion of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Chapter 6: The Summation on the Conclusion of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial .

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