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The trial of the Chicago 7, the screenplay, Aaron Sorkin

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dramas

The trial of the Chicago 7

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Aaron Sorkin

the screenplay

"Academy and Emmy Award-winning writer-director Aaron Sorkin's brilliant screenplay for his hit film The Trial of the Chicago 7--the first of his movie screenplays every published"--from back cover"In 1969-1970 the Nixon Administration put eight antiwar activists on trial for riots that took place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One, Bobby Seale, was separated from the rest after the judge ordered him bound and gagged in court, and so the defendants became known as the Chicago 7. The defendants were a mix of counterculture revolutionaries such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and political activists such as Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis. As the trial dragged on, they came to understand one another's motivation and tactics in trying to change a country wracked by was and assassinations. The trial received enormous news coverage and was a flash point in a deeply divided nation. With its star-filled cast and superbly directed by Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is one of the great courtroom dramas of all time"--from back cover

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Trial of the Chicago Seven