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The Chicago Eight Trial: Excerpts from the Trial Transcript

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Prosecution Witnesses:

Robert Murray, police sergeant
Robert Pierson, undercover investigator
Frank Riggio, police detective
Dwayne Oklepek, reporter
William Frapolly, undercover investigator
Irwin Bock, police officer

Defense Witnesses:

Sarah Diamant, teaching fellow
Phil Ochs, folksinger
Allen Ginsberg, poet
Bobby Seale, defendant
Dick Gregory, comedian
Timothy Leary, psychologist and psychedelic drug expert
Abbie Hoffman, defendant
Richard Daley, mayor
Arlo Guthrie, folksinger
Ed Sanders, festival publicist
Cora Weiss, co-chair of New Mobilization Committee
Linda Morse, peace activist
Judy Collins, folksinger
Rennie Davis, defendant
Norman Mailer, author
Jesse Jackson, minister
(Abernathy incident)

Prosecution Rebuttal Witnesses:

James Riordan, deputy chief of police
("barnyard epithet" incident)
Barbara Lawyer, cocktail waitress
(judicial robes incident)

Summations:

Defense Summation: William Kuntsler
Prosecution Summation: Thomas Foran

Verdict

Sentencing

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