Chicago Eight: Join the Conspiracy

@ National Portrait Gallery

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Join the Conspiracy (Chicago Eight)This poster was a call to arms for the “Days of Rage,” street demonstrations that the radical antiwar left organized in Chicago in October 1969; protesting the trial of the Chicago Eight was one of its goals. The Eight had been charged with conspiracy to incite the rioting that marked Chicago’s 1968 Democratic convention. The Chicago Eight were (clockwise from bottom) Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis, Bobby Seale, John Froines, David Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, Lee Weiner and (center) Tom Hayden. (Seale’s case was separated, making the Chicago Eight the Seven.) All were well-known members of groups that were adopting increasingly confrontational tactics. The trial lasted four months, and Judge Julius Hoffman lost control of proceedings early on, so that the trial became a theatrical protest in its own right. The defendants were found guilty only on lesser charges, and those verdicts were overturned on appeal.

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Image

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Halftone Poster

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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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