Tag: lee Weiner

• REVIEW: Conspiracy to Riot: The Life and Times of One of the Chicago 7 by Lee Weiner

  

  The Official Description: In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal government for conspiracy to incite a riot. Some of them barely knew one another, having come together briefly to protest the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the war in Vietnam. First dubbed the “Conspiracy 8” and later the “Chicago…

  charkinzie

  19 Aug 2020

  non-fiction

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