"Address to faculty and students on the significance of the 1968 Chicago riot and the subsequent trial of the Chicago Seven"

John Froines

Date

12-12-1969

Streaming Media

Length

2 hours 25 minutes

Notes

Froines, who received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Yale in 1967, came to national attention as a member of the Chicago Seven, a group of anti-war activists charged in connection with riots in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Froines was one of two defendants in the group acquitted of all charges.

Transferred and preserved by Portland State University Library’s Special Collections with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library.

Subjects

Chicago Seven Trial -- Chicago -- Ill. -- 1969-1970, Vietnam War -- 1961-1975 -- Protest movements

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Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/11445

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