"I have today ordered to Vietnam the air mobile division and certain other forces, which will raise our fighting strength, from 75,000 to 125,000 men, almost immediately." "Additional forces will be needed later, and they will be sent as requested." "This will make it necessary to increase our active fighting forces by raising the monthly draft call from 17,000, over a period of time, to 35,000 per month." "This is a rather important conception, both what's apt to happen in Chicago, and also what kind of a movement we're trying to build." "We're trying to contribute to a set-up, in which the energies of the anti-war movement can be unleashed or liberated." "We're working for some kind of combination of planning and flexibility, which will on the one hand just avoid complete chaos." "We have to establish a network for discussion and preparation that takes into account the possibility that you might want at the time of the Convention a very great outpouring of protest, or the other possibility that you might want" "protests to occur on a more moderate scale at the Convention and in other parts of the country." "We believe that politics is the way you live your life, not who you support." "It's not in terms of rallies or speeches or political programs." "It's in terms of images and in terms of transforming people's lives." "We are coming to Chicago, at the time of the Democratic National Convention, not to disrupt the Convention, not to confront the police," "National Guard troops, or the men in the United States Army." "But to challenge the policies of militarization that have been felt so strongly and brutally in Vietnam." "We're going to invest our time, our semen, our love vectors, our intellect, in America, and we're not going to allow our country to become one of the fabled, damned nations to join the Mayan ruins" "and all the other violent civilizations that have been snuffed." "... just on the edge of the park." "ABC's Don Farmer is there." "Here come the cops." "They're pushing this crowd back now." "A big police van has now pulled into the intersection." "Now here come the police." "Step up here." "Here they come." "This is a real police charge." "We're gonna get it." "We're gonna get it." "Now the police are clubbing this young man." "Clubbing him." "Now I see them club at least three young people." "Now they're moving into the crowd and beating them with their nightsticks." "There are a lot of young people on the ground now." "There's another one that hit the ground and he's screaming." "They're really letting him have it now." "This is real violent." "This is the worst it's been so far here in Chicago." "Police running across here." "There's another one that hit the ground and he's screaming." "They're really letting him have it now." "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the government will prove in this case, the plan of the eight defendants, who encouraged people to come to Chicago during the Democratic Convention from August the 26th through August the 29th, 1968." "Their plan was to bring people into Chicago to protest, and then create a situation where these people would riot." "In doing so, the defendants crossed state lines with the intent to start this riot." "Intent to incite, is that the key line?" "Intent to incite." "Did you intend to incite?" "And it's not concerned..." "It's a state of mind trial." "I mean, we're being tried for our thoughts." "We're charged with carrying certain ideas across state lines." "Not with carrying machine guns, or carrying little girls, or little boys, or any other kind of shit." "We're charged with having a certain state of mind when we go from New York, into Pennsylvania, into Indiana, and then finally into Illinois." "We hope to prove that the prosecution is the result of two motives on the part of the government." " Objection." " I sustain the objection." "You may speak to the guilt or innocence of your clients, not to the motive of the government." "Your Honor, I have always thought..." "Regardless of what you always thought, Mr. Kunstler," "I sustain the objection." "We hope to show that what actually happened in the streets of Chicago was not a riot caused by demonstrators, but a riot engineered by the police of this city." "No one here is accused of actually committing a violent act." "So, in getting the seven of us, they're very smart, 'cause they're getting seven of the people who, for the longest time, stubbornly kept talking about going to Chicago." "We will prove that the defendants, David Dellinger," "Rennie Davis, and Thomas Hayden..." "Who is the one that shook his fist in the direction of the jury?" "That is Mr. Hayden." "That is my customary greeting, Your Honor." "We do not allow shaking of fists in this courtroom, sir." "The defendants, Dellinger, Davis and Hayden, were the leaders of a group called the Mobilization." "Their goal was to use the unpopularity of the war in Vietnam to lure young people to Chicago." "This August, I'm going to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago." "I want the world to know that there are thousands of young people in this country who do not want to see a rigged convention rubber-stamp another four years of Lyndon Johnson's war." "Join us." "In addition to the Mobilization, there was another group that tried to lure people to Chicago." "That group was led by Abbie Hoffman." "The jury is directed to disregard the kiss thrown by the defendant, Hoffman." "And another leader of this group was Jerry Rubin." "They called themselves the Yippies." "We feel that it was not only our right, but our duty to go to Chicago and do what we did." "I will openly confess to everything that I did, and even to what they say I didn't do." "It's a thrill because it's the Academy Award of protests." "And I want to congratulate all the thousands of people who came to Chicago and competed for the honor." "I don't know why they selected the eight of us, but we're very nervous and excited, and hope that we're equal to the task." "Two more of these individuals are Lee Weener..." "Weiner." "Lee Weener, and John Froines, joined with Davis, Dellinger and Hayden." "The last person who joined is a man named Bobby Seale." "We will prove that these defendants made unreasonable demands upon the city of Chicago for certain permits." "Non-negotiable demands." "We hope to show that the nightstick became the symbol of what demonstrators could expect who were demonstrating against the continuance of this bloody and unjustified war in Vietnam." "We will demonstrate that free speech died here in the streets under those clubs, and that the bodies of these demonstrators were the sacrifices to its death." "So you think you're going to get a fair trial?" " If things work out right." " Yeah." "Yeah, we'll get the usual fair trial, Chicago-style." "They're building gallows on the third floor, you know." "They got this little door going..." "Testing guys, testing these bags, and pulling ropes and shit." "I don't know, some people say that that's a pretty pessimistic sign." "All rise." "The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois now is in session." "The Honorable Judge Julius J. Hoffman presiding." "You should have seen that jury, that was some audience to play to," "I'll tell you." "It was out of the back pages of the Ladies' Home Journal." "It was weird." "Will you please identify yourself for the record?" "Of course I will, Len." "My name is Abbie." "I'm an orphan of America." "Your Honor, may the record show it is the defendant Hoffman who has taken the stand?" "Well, it is rather important in this case." "There's a Hoffman up here and one down there." "I certainly wouldn't want the jury to get confused." "We will concede, Your Honor." " When were you born?" " Psychologically, 1960." " Objection." " Objection sustained." "What?" "My background has nothing to do with my state of mind?" "Will you remain quiet while I'm making a ruling?" " Mr. Feinglass." " Weinglass." "Weinglass, yes." "Will you please continue the examination of the witness?" "Now directing your attention to September, 1967." " What were you doing?" " What was I doing?" "Well, I was doing a number of things." "Among them was a meeting I had with the defendant Jerry Rubin." "Jerry said that the problem with the peace movement is that it's based solely on the war in Vietnam." "See, we feel that the war is not just an accident, it's a by-product of a capitalist system that we have in this country." "He felt that we had to put forth new kinds of values to create a society in which a Vietnam War wouldn't even be possible." "We've got to let Johnson and the Democrats know that we don't support their fucking war." "We should go to Chicago and greet the convention of death with a demonstration of an alternative culture with alternative values." "Right, while they're having politicians at the Convention Center, we'll have rock bands playing in the park." "It'll be a coming-together of pot and politics." "We'll radicalize every hippie in the country, man." "The actions we've already taken, they've been exciting, alive, the best kind of guerilla theater." "We have to create that same spirit in Chicago." "Daley and Johnson will never let it happen, man." "They're going to fucking lose it." "That's the point!" "Don't you get it?" "We'll terrify the war machine and force LBJ to be nominated under armed guard!" "Yeah, but we need to have a name, you know, signifying the radicalization of hippies." "Right?" "Okay." "Now, what rhymes with hippie?" "Hippie." "Bippie..." "Abbie?" "I think Paul just went into our bedroom." "I think he may be having one of those brainstorms." "Hippie, bippie, vippie, yippie, yippie." "Holy shit, that's it!" " Who do you want to give the letter to?" " To the mayor." "We want to give it to the mayor." "And if the mayor won't receive it, we want the person" " closest to him to receive it." " The mayor is busy." "Okay, well, who would be the next in line to receive it?" "This is not a petition, this is a formal application for the use of Grant Park." "No, you want this for the mayor to receive, don't you?" "You said he's in a council meeting" " which is open to the public." " That's right." "But you can't give it to him during a council meeting." " No, we won't." " This is his office right here." " We won't give it to him." " I know you won't give it to him." "They won't even let you in there." "Who's the spokesman here?" " We all are." " We all are." "Okay." "Give it any place you want." " Yippie!" " Yippie!" "Yippy-skippy." "We began negotiations with the city of Chicago, back on March 25, 1968, with a meeting with the Parks Department, and Deputy Mayor Stahl." "Your application is still under consideration, but the mayor doesn't have the power to grant permits." "Are you fucking kidding me?" "Daley's the boss of Chicago!" "He makes all the decisions around here." "Excuse me." "Excuse me, sir." "But for many months we've been planning a Festival of Life with the basis of free music." "What else do you plan to do besides demonstrate your music?" "Well, a dawn ass-washing ceremony, with tens of thousands participating, will occur each morning at 5:00 a.m., as Yippie revelers and protesters prepare for the 7:00 a.m. volleyball tournament." "There will be public fornication, whenever and wherever there is an aroused appendage and a willing aperture." " Here, here!" " Look, Dave, Dave, Dave, there's half a million Yippies coming to our festival, and they're gonna need a place to sleep, you got it?" "It has to be in the park, man." "The hotels are all gonna be filled up with fucking delegates." "I wasn't aware that your application says anything about sleeping in the park." "That is simply not permitted." "Where would you sleep anyway?" "Some of us will live in tents, others will live frivolously." "You know what?" "I got a great idea, Dave." "Why don't you just give me 100 grand and we'll call the whole thing off?" "What do you say?" "Now, you testified on the August 7th meeting with Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, that there was some mention of $100,000." "Is that not correct?" "That is correct." "Did you take that discussion seriously, Mr. Stahl?" "Yes, I most certainly did." "Was that a betrayal of your friends to take a ransom?" " A what?" " A $100,000 ransom." "I don't understand." "A ransom?" "You mean to rip off this city for 100 grand?" " Yeah." " It's a groovy thing to do." "What, are you kidding?" "What are they gonna do with it anyway?" " Would you have done it?" " What?" "Would you have taken $100,000 to call everything off?" "I would have taken $100,000." "As to calling it off," "well..." "How much is it worth to you" " to call it off?" " Call off what?" "A million?" "Would you have done it for a million?" " The revolution?" " Yeah." " What's your price?" " My life." "At 7:10 this evening, Martin Luther King was shot in Tennessee." "Martin Luther King, 20 minutes ago, died." "I issued a police order to shoot to kill any arsonists or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in their hand in Chicago." "And to issue a police order, to shoot to maim, or cripple anyone looting." "I remember seeing him, April 4, 1968." "Martin Luther King had been assassinated." "Riots all over the country, and LBJ came on, and he shed a tear, they got tricky make-up men to do that stuff, and he said," ""My fellow Americans, in the memory of his name," ""we must be nonviolent."" "And I put down a joint and said," ""Holy shit, LBJ's a pacifist." "I didn't know that."" "Towards the end of next month, the scene below, in front of Chicago's Amphitheater will be one of surging crowds and hectic activity." "The Democratic National Convention will be under way." "But in addition to the delegates, and their guests, others, perhaps numbering in the hundreds of thousands, will be on hand also." "And this may create some problems." "Two major dissident groups are planning to have their voices heard here" "Convention Week." "The more militant of the two is the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam." "Its Chicago office is making plans to have upwards of 50,000 people here during the Convention." "We want to underscore again that we're coming to Chicago by the tens of thousands, whether or not there are any permits given." "We are here to make a visible, militant, but peaceful presence." "A political confrontation, but not a physical confrontation, in terms of Chicago." "We expect this to be a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration, and whether or not it will be peaceful, it really is in the hands, at this time, of the mayor of this city." "Why did you want the Convention to come here so badly?" "Because we have a great city." "Will it be a good convention, Mr. Mayor?" "The best ever held." "I am commanding general of the Emergency Operation Headquarters of the Illinois Army National Guard." "The Emergency Operation Headquarters was established for the purpose of controlling operations in the event of civil disturbances." "We shall overcome" "We shall overcome" "Well, I think that it's quite clear that the city and the Democratic Party is preparing for a police state and martial law during the week of the Democratic National Convention." "Mr. Hoffman, why are the Yippies here?" " Abbie." " Abbie, why are the Yippies here?" "Since we're not a carefully structured organization, you'd have to ask each person." "Everybody is allowed to do their thing." "If some people storm the Amphitheater, they storm the Amphitheater." "Other people wanna smoke dope, other people wanna go and tell the cops what we're doing, that's good." "If the cops wanna come down and beat our heads, that's it." "I mean, it's all conceived as a total theater with everyone becoming an actor." "These people are revolutionaries bent on the destruction of the government of the United States of America." "They're a pitiful handful." "They have almost no support." "But by golly, they get the cooperation of the news media." "They're built into something really big." "They're referred to as kids, they're referred to as Yippies." "Gentlemen, the hardcore leadership of this group are Communists." "We're training people in the use of highly mobile defensive tactics that might be required in the eventuality of police violence." "There are some young people in the city practicing snake dancing and other techniques to stay up against the police." "Does this disturb you in any way?" "No, snake dances never disturb me." "Did you have a conversation with Jerry Rubin in November of 1967?" "Yes." "Mr. Rubin said that he was, at present, working full-time on plans to have a youth festival in Chicago when the Democratic Convention would take place." "I was overtaken with the audacity of the idea and I said," ""It's a beautiful and frightening idea."" "And Rubin said, "I think that the beauty of it is that the establishment" ""is going to do it all themselves." "We won't do a thing." ""They will smash the city themselves, they will provoke all the violence."" "And I said, "I think you're right." ""But I have to admit to you that I'm scared at the thought of it."" "If people stay in the park and play the role of the good niggers, they'll be okay, they'll be treated with respect by the police." "But those Yippies that march on the Amphitheater or go downtown, they'll be risking their lives." "That's right." "These cops here are tough." "They'd kill you with a smile." "We are not going out to fight the cops." "I mean, we basically hope that this is going to be a nonviolent situation in this park." "However, if the violence comes, we will soak it up." "There's a struggle going on in the world today, and it's a struggle about what the future of this country's about." "And young people are not going to stay neutral, they are going to be involved." "In the face of repression, you either sit at home in fear, or you accommodate by closing your eyes, or you fight." "And in this country, people are going to fight repression by any means they choose to fight." "They're not going to take over Chicago, and they're not going to take over any convention, and they're not going to take over any streets." "And that goes for all of them." "And I don't care how many of them come here or where they come from." ""Many of us may fight and die here." ""We recognize this as the vision of the founders of this nation." ""We recognize that we are America." "We recognize that we are free men."" "Political pigs, your days are numbered." "We are the second American Revolution." "We are winning." "Yippie." "A Democratic Convention is about to begin in a police state." "There just doesn't seem to be any other way to say it." "And now, here's Yippie!" "Now what happened to Bobby Seale is..." "You know when we were all indicted," "Bobby Seale was the eighth person indicted, which was really weird because Bobby was only in Chicago a couple of hours." "But the government believes in integration, equality, and so, if it indicts seven, it's got to add on a black person." "And what could be better than the national chairman of the Black Panther Party?" "Beautiful." "You've got eight, perfect." "Bobby Seale was in Stockholm, Sweden, when he heard he was indicted." "He couldn't even remember what it was all about." "There is a motion here of defendant Bobby Seale to be permitted to defend himself." "I will hear you, Mr. Seale." "Thank you, Your Honor." "I want to present this motion on behalf of myself." "I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that I, as one of the defendants, have a right to defend myself." "Your Honor, the other defendants would like to join in this motion." "I would like to call Your Honor's attention to" "Adams v. The United States, where the Supreme Court said," ""The Constitution does not force a lawyer on a defendant."" "Mr. Seale has said that he does not desire to have me, or any of the other attorneys, represent him in any way." "Motion will be denied." "I should be allowed to defend myself." "I will ask you to sit down." "I should be allowed to speak so I can defend myself." " Be quiet!" " Don't tell me to shut up." "I got a right to speak." "I need to speak in order to defend myself." "Mr. Seale," "I admonish you that any outburst such as you have just indulged in will be appropriately dealt with at the right time during this trial." "I want to argue the point about this so you can get an understanding of the fact that I have a right to defend myself!" "Mr. Marshal, will you go to that man" " and ask him to be quiet?" " I want my constitutional rights." "I want to have my constitutional right." "How come you won't recognize that?" "Sit down and be quiet!" " Hey, man." "Come on!" " Stop it!" "Come on!" "Now, go ahead, continue." "I'll watch and get railroaded." "The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago tonight as the political scenery is being shifted into place for the four-day stand." "Why did you decide to come to Chicago?" "Mostly because I felt that my presence in Chicago, even of one individual, might bring home to the delegates there just how wide and how extensive the problem is in America today." "I'm here for two reasons." "One, we're going to demonstrate against the war." "Number two is just what it's called, the Festival of Life." "I'm sure it's going to get much more difficult as the war goes on, but we just gotta keep on protesting until the war is ended, until this obscenity is finished." "We need somebody to follow the orange curtain all the way down to the cafeteria." "It is now my honor to present to you the mayor of our host city, Richard J. Daley." "Thank you, thank you very much, thank you." "Honored guests, fellow Democrats." "The people of Chicago and its mayor are proud to welcome a great political gathering of Americans who come here to shape the future of a nation," "to choose a man to become our president." " My fellow Americans." " That's us!" "Yeah!" "Have another great Democratic National Convention." "Democrats understand the imperative need for respect of the law." "Every citizen knows that society can become a jungle." "All right, now I'm going to ask your opinion on the famous issues facing our country today." "But it is high time for the political leadership of this generation to reject the language of conflict and despair!" "Right now..." "Right now it's time to kick out the jams, motherfucker!" "Rock, rock, rock!" "The issue of law and order?" " Shoot to kill!" "Shoot to kill!" " Shoot to kill!" "Shoot to kill!" "And as long as I'm mayor of this town, there will be law and order in Chicago!" "The aggressive war in Vietnam?" " Negotiate with bombs!" " Negotiate with bombs!" "The issue of rebellious youth?" " Kill them!" " Kill them!" " Crush those motherfuckers!" " Crush those motherfuckers!" " Crush them!" " Crush them!" "At today's event, protestors clashed with police, and the first blood of the confrontation in Chicago was drawn." "Ten miles away, Convention Hall." ""You came here to disrupt the Convention."" "They had 10 miles of barbed wire fence." "They had 25,000 troops counting the cops and National Guard." "They had tanks, armored tanks, in the streets of Chicago," "National Guard with bayonets." "They had helicopters with machine guns." ""We came to disrupt the Convention." Out of sight." "We couldn't find our way out of the park!" "This is Lincoln Park in the city's swank Near North side." "Hippies, Yippies, and just plain kids have wanted to sleep in this park during the Convention, but the city has repeatedly said no, and police have enforced that order." "... for remaining in the park between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m." "11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m." " Please obey the law." " We're going to stay in the park!" " Hello?" " Mr. Bob Fass?" " Yeah." " I have a collect call for you." " Collect call!" "Yeah?" " A collect call from Mr. Abbie Hoffman, will you accept the charge?" "Yes, we'll accept the charge, but would you like to say hello to anybody in New York, operator?" " No, sir, thank you." " Thank you." " Hey." " Hey, Abbie." " Robert." " Hi." " Yeah, it's a chilly night here." " Yeah?" "Yeah, how are you doing, man?" "Okay." "How was it in court today?" "Oh, it's unbelievable." "I mean, our trial is a jewel." "The judge, he's 74 years old." "He was alive at the first and second Balkan Wars." "I think he just missed going on the Titanic." "Yeah, I think he's even beyond the generation gap." "Are you sure you're not related to him?" " No, no." " You're sure?" "The name..." "I brought him a present though." "I heard he had tired blood and I bought him a year's supply of Geritol." "Do you really think he'd take a thing like that kindly, Abbie?" "Giving him Geritol?" "Well, he has a bit of a sense of humor." "He might think of it as an attempt to bribe him." " No." " I think you probably are relatives in some distant way, Abbie." "In some distant way, yeah." "In the great conspiracy, we're all sort of relatives." "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the testimony the witness is about to give is offered by the government only with respect to the defendant Derringer." "I think Your Honor means Dellinger." "Dellinger, that's right." "Mr. Dillinger said that, "We must issue a..."" "I mispronounced the defendant's name." "You said, "Dillinger."" "It's "Derringer." We're both wrong." "You mean Mr. Derringer, do you not?" "Your Honor, it's Dellinger." "Let's move on, shall we?" "Now, Mr. Pierson, taking you back to Monday, August the 26th." "Did you have occasion to be in Lincoln Park that day?" "Yes, sir, I did." "I was introduced to Jerry Rubin by someone I had befriended." "He said, "Jerry, this is Bob Levin." "He will be your personal bodyguard." ""He can be trusted, and he handles himself well."" "Rubin shook my hand and said that he was glad to have me with him." "And what occurred after this introduction, please?" "There was a commotion to the south of where Rubin and I were sitting." "We saw two men being placed in a police squadron." "Rubin asked one of the people standing there what had happened, and they told him that Tom Hayden had been arrested." "He told Rubin that a march was being formed to go down to police headquarters to free Hayden." "What did you do then?" "Rubin and I joined the march." "The march was called to protest the arrest of Tom Hayden who was accused of disorderly conduct for letting the air out of the tires of a police car." "There were rumblings of the trouble to come all afternoon." " Free Hayden!" "Free Hayden!" " Free Hayden!" "Free Hayden!" " Free Hayden!" "Free Hayden!" " Free Hayden!" "Free Hayden!" " Free Hayden!" " Free Hayden!" "What do we want?" " Revolution!" " When?" " Now!" " Now!" "What do we want?" " Revolution!" " Revolution!" "Now, when you arrived at the police headquarters, did you see any policemen in the area?" "did you see any policemen in the area?" "Yes, there were uniformed officers in front of the building." "Rubin said, "There are too many pigs here, let's go to the Hilton."" "We went east on 11th to Michigan Avenue and then north on Michigan Avenue." "When the march was midpoint past the Logan Statue, the crowd broke and ran up to the statue screaming, "Take the hill."" "You are in an assembly which you have no permit for." "If you do not leave, you will be subject to arrest." "Move it back!" "Move it back!" "Let them have their statue, let the pigs have their fucking statue!" "Forty thousand troops, their tanks, their mace, their artillery." "Chicago has become a concentration camp and it is clear for everybody to see." "Mr. Pierson, what, if anything, happened after the incident at the Logan Statue?" "Rubin and I saw some people tacking newspaper articles on some trees." "The first article showed a picture of a policeman with a club." "Rubin looked at me and said," ""Look at that fat pig." "We should isolate one or two of those pigs and kill them."" " And what did you say?" " I agreed with him." "Then Rubin looked at me and said," ""We've got to do more to keep the crowd active." ""We want them in the park for the Bobby Seale speech tonight."" "I object on the grounds that my lawyer is not here." "You know my lawyer is not here, Your Honor." "I want my lawyer here when he mentions my name and testifies against me." "Ask him..." "Ask him to sit down, Mr. Marshal." "Sit down, Mr. Seale." "And what, if anything, occurred after this conversation?" "Two people walked up to us." "One of them had a plastic bag." "The man with the plastic bag said to Rubin," ""We're going to fill this bag with human shit" ""and we're going to throw it at the pigs tonight."" "Rubin laughed and said, "Good, it will make good food for the pigs."" "I'm going to go into the whole thing." " Go ahead." " Do it." "I got a lot of different emotions when I hear this guy Pierson." "One is I feel like vomiting 'cause it's so nauseating." "The second is I feel like laughing 'cause it's so funny." "I mean, it's really hilarious." "The guy's on a real fantasy trip." "The third, I feel like crying because it's so dangerous." "Because this is the man that they're trying to use to put all of us in the federal penitentiary for 10 years." "Back in the courtroom, defense attorneys told the judge," ""We have certain information about the mental capacity of this witness."" "Pierson was then asked," ""At any time have you ever been under treatment by a physician" ""for your mental capacity?" CBS News, Chicago." "When you went to Lincoln Park on the 26th of August, did you know that Abbie Hoffman was going to be there?" "No, sir, I didn't." "Had you ever seen him before that time?" "No, I hadn't." "Can you describe what he looked like when you first saw him?" "Not really, other than the wild hair, and the nose, which impressed me." " In which way did it impress you?" " Its size." "Mr. Rubin turned to his group and began to shout in a loud voice." " He used some profanity." " What did he say?" ""The pigs are in our park." "They're MF-ers and shitheads."" "Were there any obscenities in his speech?" "Every other word was an obscenity, especially the four-letter word." "You say, "Blank pigs."" " Did he say, "Blank pigs"?" " No, sir." "Did he use another word other than "blank"?" " Yes, sir." " Was it a four-letter word?" "Yes, sir." "What was the first letter of that four-letter word, please?" " F." " No laughing in the courtroom!" "At this point, Mr. Hayden said..." "This is becoming rather obscene." " Go ahead." " Mr. Hayden said," ""Fuck them all." "They're all pigs." "We should have an army and get guns."" "While you were assigned to follow Mr. Rubin, did you ever see him throw any object at another human being?" " Yes, Tuesday night." " Tuesday night he threw an object?" "Yes." "He threw a sweater." " At who?" " At me." "I take it you were uninjured by the sweater." "Did you ever see any person in the Mobilization wearing a gun?" "I saw bulges under their coats." "You saw bulges?" "Did you say to yourself at the time, "Those are guns"?" "I said to myself, "Those are bulges."" "Extremely accurate." "Abbie Hoffman is here from Chicago on the telephone." "Only, he's not really here, he's in Chicago." "Hey, Abbie." " Robert!" " Hi." "I heard my first dirty four-letter word today in court." " You did?" " It was MF-er." " Is that heavy?" " Well, it's..." "They kept, like, saying it." ""What was this dirty word?"" "And he would say, "MF-er."" "Oh, it's unbelievable." " I mean, our trial is a jewel." " Yeah." "After every witness we'd hear we'd say, "We're in the wrong court."" "Like today there was this big bull dyke of a policewoman." "I'm probably gonna get sued for that one." " Is it Miss or Mrs?" " Miss." "Do you know a person named Abbie Hoffman?" "Yes, sir." "And do you see that person in the courtroom at this time?" "Yes, sir." "He's hiding behind the gentleman in the maroon shirt." "He..." "Right behind you." "Calling your attention to Monday, August 26th." "Did you see Abbot Hoffman in Lincoln Park?" "I did." "There was a group of people gathered around Mr. Hoffman." "I heard him say it," ""On Wednesday, we're gonna meet in Grant Park," ""and we're gonna storm the Hilton."" "And then he said," ""We're gonna need a lot of weapons, so we should bring rocks, bottles,"" "and another good weapon, he said, was a brick." "And then someone asked about holding the park that night." "And he said, "Yeah." "We should hold the park tonight at all costs." ""It's our park, and the..." "And the fucking pigs have no right to push us out."" "The city ordinance prohibits persons from remaining in the park from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. Please obey the law." "The city ordinance prohibits persons from..." "Look, we're not here to fight anyone, all right." "If the cops want the park, let them have the park." "Who gives a shit?" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" "Please obey the law." "Get the fucking pigs!" "Get the car!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" " Hell, no, we won't go!" "Is anybody hurt?" "Is anybody hurt?" "Mike?" "Now, from your own observations at the Democratic National Convention on these nights, did you see any policemen beat any demonstrators?" "No, sir." "Did you see any policemen do anything wrong?" "No." "Up against the wall, motherfucker!" "He hit you there with a club" " and over the eye?" " He hit me all over the place." "And there were two of them that hit me, but only one that I can recognize." "Do you want me to try and stop the bleeding?" "Wanna let me try to stop your bleeding?" " Is it bleeding badly?" " Yeah." "And I asked the bartender for another drink, and all of a sudden these guys with blue helmets come in, pushing people out of the way, and telling everybody, "Get out!"" "So I turn around and look at this guy in a blue helmet, this pig, and he says to me, "Get out!"" "I said, "Why?" "This is only my second drink."" "He said, "You had enough drinks, get out!"" "And I'm real mad because I'm not part of this Yippie gang or anything like that." "I'm just an ordinary citizen in this Oxford pub having a Black Label and soda." "So I just laid my drink down and got out before that guy put the stick to me." "How come you weren't drinking White Horse?" "That's all I got to say." "I was scared, just plain scared." "As you come around the corner of the back porch into the yard behind 5012 South Dorchester, you may see a group of 10 to 12-year-old boys playing what looks like any one of the games that city kids play." "But this game is new." "The kids call it, "Cops and Demonstrators."" "Michael, would you rather be a cop or a demonstrator when you play this game?" "A demonstrator." "I like to be a cop better than a demonstrator because the demonstrators, when you hit the person, you know, it kind of hurts sometimes." "Cops and Demonstrators is a relatively new game." "But the different thing about it, according to the boys, is that in this one no one ever wins." " All the way with LBJ!" " All the way with LBJ!" " All the way with LBJ!" " All the way with LBJ!" "One man followed these people all the way around." "Why couldn't we give it to them?" "March or leave." "We wish to announce now our firm determination to organize a rally the afternoon of August 28 and from there to march to the International Amphitheater where we will be heard on the fundamental issues of the war in Vietnam and racism in the United States." "This is David Dellinger, who is a national chairman of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam." "What's the purpose of your arrival here and wait at the mayor's office?" "Well, obviously there's an emergency created by the city's refusal to give us any meaningful place to protest." "The city invited the Democratic Convention to come in, in fact paid a lot of money to have it come in." "In these days, with Americans and Vietnamese being killed daily in Vietnam, you can't hold a political convention without expecting some form of protest to accompany it." "I would like to say here and now that this administration will never permit a lawless, violent group of terrorists to menace the lives of millions of people, destroy the purpose of this National Convention and take over the streets of Chicago." "Ms. Willis, what is your reaction to the news we get from downtown of all the violence that's going on down there?" "Well, the way I understand it is the white people are always hollering about how the colored people act and everything, but, you know, now things that it's turned around to show you who it really is." "Are you happier that it's downtown and not up here?" "Yeah, I'm very glad." "Well, do you feel any sympathy for the white people who are being beaten up and tear-gassed downtown?" "Well, no." "At this point, are you still planning to go ahead with your march to the Amphitheater?" "Yes, we are." "And we think also that, you know, there is that old song about" ""Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."" "And I think that if people simply fold up their tents and go away when they're threatened with arrest or brutality, then we will have a police state." "What to do about the march?" "I don't know." "This was originally to be a festival of life, not a confrontation." "My own feeling is I don't want to get my head busted in and I don't want anybody who came knowing that I was coming here to have their head busted in." "So I'm not going to march formally as a Yippie." "I'm going on the Mobilization march as an individual but not as a leader of Yippies." "And I don't know if I'll march from here if it looks like a bloodbath scene." "I mean, man, 25,000 troops." "Are you kidding me?" "It's ridiculous." "I don't know about the rest of the people here, but I'm gonna be in that march and I'm gonna march from here, and I'll march all the way down there." "What do you think about the trial?" " I don't know anything about the trial." " Oh, yeah, where you going?" " And listen..." " What's your name?" "My name is Frankie." "How are you?" "Some of my friends are on trial in there." "What do you think about it?" " They are going to prison for 10 years." " I don't know." "For having a state of mind" " and looking silly." " Are they?" " Well, you ought to get sensible." " Who?" " Like the..." "All of you guys." " Why?" " Dress like the rest of them." " Why?" "Because you'd look better." "You look too messy." "Oh, so you think people should go to prison 'cause they look messy?" " No." " Why not?" " You should cut your hair." " Why?" " Because..." " What?" "It ain't cute?" " You want to touch it?" " No." "Oh, come on, look." "I cut it every morning." "It grows like this." "By midnight," " it'll be down to my ankles." " Listen, I got to go." "So what do you think about the trial, man?" "Well, I have..." "I have a good seat, and it's unbelievable theater." "Great show." "The outcome don't look good, but the beginning and the middle is looking great." "I view it as a clash between life and death." "Between what the French call la vitale, the vital force." "And I think that..." "Well, as I conceptualize it and frame it," "I try to have all the symbolism on our side reflect the symbolism of life that's reflected in the revolution of which we are symbols ourselves." "I teach and I write poetry and I lecture at universities." "And did you have any occasion to meet with Abbie Hoffman?" "I did." "Do you recall what Mr. Hoffman said in the course of conversation?" "He said that politics had become theater and magic, basically, that it was the manipulation of imagery through the mass media that was confusing and hypnotizing the people in the United States." "Making them accept a war which they really didn't believe in." "After he spoke to you, what, if anything, was your response to his suggestion?" "to his suggestion?" "Oh, I was worried whether the whole scene would become violent." "I was worried whether the government would let us do something" " that was funnier, or prettier or..." " Objection." "I..." " I sustain the objection." " I sustain the objection." "That was our conversation, sir." "Mr. Ginsberg, you were named as kind of a Yippie religious leader, were you not?" "No, not really, because the word "leader"" "was one we really tried to get away from." " It was more like a..." " A religious Yippie teacher?" "...religious experimenter." " Oh, experimenter." "Now, concerning a number of books of poetry that you have written." "In the Empty Mirror, there is a poem called "The Night Apple."" "Do you believe you could recite that for the jury?" ""The Night Apple." ""Last night I dreamed of one I loved" ""For seven long years" ""But I saw no face" ""Only the familiar presence of the body" ""Sweat, skin, eyes" ""Feces, urine, sperm, saliva" ""All one odor and mortal taste"" "Could you explain to the jury what the religious significance of this poem meant?" "If you would take a wet dream as a religious experience, I could." "It's a description of a wet dream." "Right." "Your Honor, I have to get some materials to properly carry on my cross-examination of this witness." "All right, we will go until 2:00." "Your Honor, we asked for five minutes two days ago and you refused to give it to us." " You are shouting at the court." " Oh, Your Honor." "I have never shouted at you during this trial." "Your Honor, your voice has been raised," " and several times..." " You have been disrespectful." "It is not disrespectful." "And sometimes even worse than that." "Will you step off the witness stand?" "He's just trying to calm us both down." "I needed no calming down!" "Allen Ginsberg demonstrated to the court a chant that he uses to calm tensions and quiet crowds." "It goes, "Um."" "When an argument broke out between defense attorneys and the judge about an early recess, Ginsberg said, "Um."" "The judge got mad and kicked him out of the courtroom." "And there was a running verbal battle down in the corridors, into the elevator between the defendants and the lawyers." "Under cross-examination, US Attorney Thomas Foran, had Ginsberg read to the jury three of his most erotic writings." "The jury looked shocked." "It's doubtful that they understood Ginsberg's explanation of the religious significance of those works." " Hello." " Yeah." " Yes." "Yes." "Abbie." " How are you?" "Okay." "How was it in court today?" "There's a whole fascist thing going on around this trial." "This is the only trial where you search the hair before you come in." "I mean, they have this whole thing downstairs, if you've got long hair you don't get in the federal building." " That must be a relief for you." " Right." "Oh, I'm always pulling that." "I'll say, "Yeah, okay, I'll see you." "You can have my seat." ""Go ahead, get the next short-haired prisoner."" "The public starts waiting about 10:00 at night outside the federal building to get into our trial." "In Chicago now, it's about 15 below zero at night." "Gentlemen, what was it like out here last night?" "Cold." "Very cold." " Were you able to get any sleep?" " No." "Have you got anything more with you than the blanket" " that's wrapped around your shoulders?" " Not other than what's on me, no." "If I did, it would be on me." "Is it worth standing out here in this freezing cold?" "I think so." "Why?" "What's the attraction?" "Well, it's something that you're not gonna see on television and I'd like to see it, you know, first-hand." " How long have you been out here?" " Since about 4:00 this morning." " Are you pretty cold?" " I'm freezing." "These people are Communists." "I receive intelligence reports." "There is a Communist conspiracy in which they're involved, not only in this country, but abroad." "Order in the court." "Order in the court." " Here come the judges." " All right." "Hey, man, what's up?" "Good to see you." " Hey, honey, how you doing?" " Hey, what's up?" " Order in the court." "Order in the court." " How you doing there, Counselor?" "Oh, you look lovely today, ma'am." "Is that your real hair?" "You don't need to get up." "May the record show that the defendants" "Hoffman and Rubin came in attired in what might be called collegiate robes." "That's judge's robes, sir." "Some might even consider them judicial robes." "Judicial robes, that's right." "Your idea, Mr. Kunstler?" "Another of your brilliant ideas?" "Your Honor, I can't take the credit for this one." "That amazes me." " Take off those robes." " Off with the robes." " Off with the robes." " Off with the robes." "Abbie, I don't want to suggest that you change your style or anything like that, but have you ever considered that maybe saying all these things is antagonizing the judge?" "Maybe you should try being nice." "Frankly, the only thing that we and Julius would agree upon is that we're infantile." "I have to reduce myself to being 15 or even seven or eight confronting my third or fourth grade English teacher who wants to make me do fucking ovals, round, round ovals, you know, for seven hours a day," "you know, when I want to go out in the schoolyard and play." "That's how I have to relate to him." "And I think our role..." "We're kids." "It's not us and the kids." "I mean, it's true, we're some kind of teacher, too, and our role in the court is to destroy its authority and the next generation will come along and destroy its power." "Conspiracy." " Bob?" " Yeah." "Did you get Southern?" "Terry Southern?" " He's not there." " He's not there?" " He's not there, that's right." " He's the first witness tomorrow." "He told me yesterday that he wasn't going to be in until 8:00 or 9:00 tonight." "No, no." "He was due in at 11:00 this morning." "Here call..." "I know what, call his hotel..." "We called." "He's not there." "He hasn't checked in." "How about calling his home and seeing when he left?" "'Cause, see, he's the first witness and we're really shy on witnesses tomorrow." "We might have to get Yippie pneumonia or something." "This is Abbie." "Oh, he's in Chicago?" "Okay, bye." "Okay, I'll see you." "Bye." "We must have a $2,000 a week phone bill." "Most of our money we raise by speaking, which means we have to leave court, we meet for two hours, and then people like to fly around the country to go speak, have to get back into Chicago by 2:00, 3:00 a.m.," "get up at 8:00 for another meeting, get into court from 10:00 to 4:30." ""Hoffman to come, the honorarium is $1,000."" "Yeah, they want to know if you would speak there for 15, 20 minutes at 10:00 p.m." " In where?" " In Los Angeles." "We're really taking the issues of this trial across the country." "Especially to the campuses on weekends and on evenings like this." "And they sold 27,000 tickets in two days." "How's this for an ego trip?" "I got a letter today that said, "Abbie Hoffman, Chicago, Illinois."" " That's something, huh?" " That's fame, Abbie." "That's immortality." "Accused of conspiracy, we call ourselves The Conspiracy." "We answer the telephone, "This is The Conspiracy."" "Dig it." "They accuse us of inciting to riot." "It's impossible to incite to riot." "If somebody wants to riot, he riots." "Malcolm X put it well." "He said, "I didn't come here to get you" ""to do anything you weren't going to do anyway."" "And the question is, are we going to be strong enough, powerful enough, brave enough, together enough to survive as a generation and change this country?" "David Dellinger." "All right, thanks." "We are the future of this country, the future belongs to us." "All power to the people." "Right on, do it." "Arriving 9:42." "The Conspiracy stands for the right of free men and free women to walk on a free planet." "And of that, we're guilty, five years, 10 years, 20 years, we're guilty until we destroy that motherfucking system." "Right on." "We're bigger than The Stones." "As soon as I walk out of that court, it's like La Dolce Vita, you know, with the paparazzi and all these, like, people chasing me." "You know, I get, like, marriage proposals sent to me and jellybeans." "Then there's this special toy they want to call an Abbie." "There's a soft drink called Yippie." " Yeah, I know." "In Baltimore I saw that." " Yeah." "A soft drink." "Is everybody rolling now?" " Is anybody not rolling?" "Go ahead." " Do it." "It's La Dolce Vita." "The people of the world are going to defeat that Goliath called imperialism." "There are one billion Davids around the world with rocks in their hands." "There are one billion Judas with knives ready to sneak in the tent and cut the head off the motherfucking monster." "We will not submit, we will not go into their ovens." "We will fight back, we will not submit to America's children for breakfast program." "Fuck off, you Philistines in Washington." "I'm talking about stop this war and stop this trial." "And this generation is going to take this country back by any means necessary." "Stop the trial!" "Stop the trial!" "Yes, we're against violence." "The greatest test of this protest is whether we can stop the massive violence in Vietnam." " Fuck you, LBJ!" " Fuck you, LBJ!" "Demonstrators started gathering in the park across from the Hilton Hotel at 11:00 p.m." "More than 400 police officers guard the front of the Hilton, headquarters for the Democratic National Committee and other agents of the President." " Fuck you, LBJ!" " Fuck you, LBJ!" " Fuck you, LBJ!" " Fuck you, LBJ!" " Fuck you, LBJ!" " Fuck you, LBJ!" "Has there been any violence tonight at all here across the street from the Conrad Hilton?" "Yes, there has been." " Can you tell us what it was?" " I'll give you an exhibit." "There were several of these thrown at police officers." "Would you describe that?" "Yes, it's a golf ball, a practice ball that has many spikes through it." "I take one look at the troops in Vietnam," "I know what America's foreign policy is about." "America now is the America of the Democratic Party." "Most of us here didn't come to support McCarthy." " The guards!" " The troops are out." " The guards!" " Troops are out." " Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" "This is Gore Vidal here." "Isn't it wonderful to be in a free country where we can speak in front of bayonets?" "We are faced with a situation here today where the enemy appears to be the troops that are now facing the demonstrators, surrounding them." "We don't see the troops as our enemy." "... this orderly selection of gentlemen here that is behind you." "You should bear in mind that just as soon as they get those uniforms off, a very goodly number of them will join you." "Everybody sit down and let's sing." "Sit down and sing to the soldiers." "Let's see if they can hear us." " This land is your land" " This land is your land" " This land is my land" " This land is my land" " From California" " From California" " To the New York Island" " To the New York Island" " From the redwood forest" " From the redwood forest" " To the Gulf Stream waters" " To the Gulf Stream waters" " This land was made for you and me" " This land was made for you and me" "One more, this time, to everybody who is listening, not to disregard these young people who are the hope for the..." "The reality of American society is daring us to take a step." "But we are going to take the step." "We are going to gather here, we are going to make our way to the Amphitheater, by any means necessary." "As you probably know, today is the National Vietnam Moratorium." "The purpose of the Moratorium is, in essence, to protest the continuation of the war and to urge the withdrawal of American forces in Vietnam." "I myself, and I'm sure all of us, and all of you, are simply staggered by the thought of what the life of a single person needlessly slaughtered in Vietnam means." "So, we will read the names of those who were killed in the war this week." "Michael Edward Adams, Grand City." "Robert Charles, of Chicago." "Ron Charles Allen, South Beloit." "Howard Lloyd Elm, Earl, Illinois." " Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye." " Henry A. Holmes..." " The honorable judge..." "...Chicago." "...of the United States district court is present." "The court is now in session." "Mr. Hoffman, we are observing the Moratorium." "I am Judge Hoffman, sir." "I believe in equality, sir, so I prefer to call people "Mister"" " or by their first names." " You will sit down, sir." " Can I be heard, Your Honor?" " Your Honor, I object" " to this man speaking out in court." " We would just like to propose" " a moment of silence." " You needn't object." "I forbid him to disrupt the proceedings." "Your Honor, I want to object to Mr. Foran's yelling in the presence of the jury." "Your Honor has admonished" " the defense counsel..." " Your Honor, this is outrageous." " the defense counsel..." " Your Honor, this is outrageous." "This man is a mouthpiece!" "Look at him." "He's wearing an armband of his clients." "The government protests his attitude and requests the court move to take notice of his conduct!" "Your Honor, I think that the temper and the expression on Mr. Foran's face speaks more than any picture could tell." " Of my contempt for Mr. Kunstler!" " Mr. Kunstler..." "To call me a mouthpiece..." " Jesus Christ!" "...and for Your Honor not to open his mouth and say that's not to be done in your court," "I think, violates the sanctity of this court." "That is a word Your Honor knows is contemptuous and contumacious." "Don't tell me what I know." "I want him admonished, Your Honor," " and I request you to do that." " I do not admonish the United States attorney because he was properly representing his client, the United States of America." "To call another attorney a mouthpiece?" "You, a lawyer, permitting your client to stand up in the presence of the jury and disrupt these proceedings..." "I don't know how to characterize it." "Your Honor, we do not permit, or not permit, our clients." "They are free, independent human beings who have been brought" " by the government to this courtroom." " That's right." "They're free, but they'll conform to the law and they'll conform to the direction of the court here, sir." " Are you turning down my request?" " I not only turn it down, I ignore it." "That speaks louder than words." "The crowd of about 10,000 anti-war protesters finally got a permit today to hold a rally in the Band Shell area of Grant Park." "Police performed the menial task of passing out handbills telling the demonstrators that a permit for their rally had been granted, quote, "In the interest of free speech and assembly" end quote." "The handbills also said that no permit for a march to the Amphitheater had been granted and that demonstrators would get nowhere but to a jail cell if they tried to march." "Why did you come to the rally in the first place?" "We're sympathetic with these people and their feelings." "Are you and these other, as you put it, beautiful people looking for trouble?" "No, I think we all recognize that we don't have a chance against bayonets, clubs, guns and tear gas." "We're unarmed and most of us are nonviolent." "Do you intend to stay on here if there's trouble?" "No, we'll run very fast." "I've just got word from the Chicago Police that there are 15,000 people in this park right now." "And under these circumstances, I think that's pretty great." "Now, let me tell you what we have planned for this afternoon." "We're going to hear from a few speakers and then, as discussed, I will be leading a nonviolent march down to the Democratic Convention at the Amphitheater." "We will be prepared for arrest if that's what is going to happen." "But we believe that the power of the people is a permit, and we hope that the city will let us go." "All right, our first speaker will be the Youth International Party's Jerry Rubin." "Welcome to the most important convention that is going on in this city." "Yeah!" "Right now I'm ready to go to jail." "I'm ready to get clubbed on the head." "I'm ready to die to change this country." "We come here to express our point of view about the Convention, and what do we have?" "Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, we've got a fucking armed camp." "You know what I say?" "Fuck them!" "They announced that this would be the most secure convention in the history of the country." "They have no respect for organized protest." "The gas falls on all of us and it is time for us to begin to show a little bit of contempt and a little bit of resistance because that is all that they are showing us." "At this point we will begin to assemble peacefully for a nonviolent march to the Amphitheater." "We have got to go." "A little faster in the front." "All right, we're just keeping our cool, moving out here." "There's a tremendous crowd and we want the people in the back to be able to form into orderly lines also." "We'd like not to have too many people massed in front or the side." "We're trying to have an orderly march, eight abreast." "It looks to me like we're many more than eight abreast." "Now, if we do get into a confrontation situation..." "I want to request again, demand again that I be able to cross-examine the witness." "Now, you have Benjamin Franklin and George Washington sitting in pictures behind you and they were slave owners, that's what they were." "They owned slaves." "And you are acting in the same manner by denying me my constitutional right." " Young man, if you keep this up..." " Look, old man, you're being exposed to the public and to the world" " that you don't..." " Have him sit down, Mr. Marshal." "I want to defend myself!" "I have the right to speak on behalf of my constitutional rights." "I didn't think I would ever live to sit..." "To sit on a bench in a courtroom where George Washington was assailed by a defendant and a judge was criticized for having his portrait on the wall." "The law protects my right not to be discriminated against." " Why don't you recognize that?" " Mr. Seale!" "Do you want to stop?" " Or do you want me to direct..." " You can't deny me my rights!" "You can't deny me my constitutional rights!" "Take that defendant into the room in there and deal with him as he should be dealt with." "I still want to be represented." "I want to represent myself!" "Let me go!" "I want to represent myself." "It's my constitutional right." "I got a right!" "I got a right!" "I got a right!" "If anybody's interfering with our rights, we're going to take this peacefully and orderly." "I would like a chance to speak to the commanding officer, please." "Are you the commanding officer?" "I'm David Dellinger, National Mobilization." "We wanted to communicate peacefully from here to the Amphitheater." "There will be no march." "There will be no march." "There's no permit to march." "Well, we believe it's not necessary to have a permit." "There will be no march today." "That's our order." "We would like to have a reason so that that could be communicated to the world." "There will be no march today." "Your Honor, if Mr. Seale would express to the court his willingness to be quiet, will the court entertain the possibility of Mr. Seale being unbound and ungagged?" "Mr. Seale, if you will assure the court that you will be respectful and conduct yourself in a manner that is gentlemanly, then I am willing to allow you to resume your former place at the table." "Will you, sir?" "I would like to speak" " on behalf of my constitutional right." " If you will give me your assurance, will you please indicate by raising your head up and down?" "Mr. Marshal, I don't think you have accomplished your purpose by that contrivance." "...I would freely express my..." " We will take another recess." "I want to speak on behalf of my constitutional right!" "You can't deny me my rights." "You can't deny me my constitutional right!" "All right, now we're continuing to maintain our cool." "We have been told by a captain that there will be no march today." "When we asked him why, he said, "Those are the orders." "There will be no march today."" "We're stubborn bastards." "We may be nonviolent, but we're stubborn." "Yes, yeah." "I just want to get them out of here so they won't do anything to them." "Get your hands off me." "Go!" "Come on now." "Go!" "Go!" "Just roll them over!" "Roll up the window and go, ma'am, go!" "Come on now, go." "Negotiations at the front of the march have not produced anything so far, negotiation with the police." "Two Mobilization representatives have gone to talk to negotiate with people higher up in the administration, perhaps Daley, though that is not confirmed." "Well, we're right in the middle of negotiating about a decision as to where we're going to go." " Are you going to get out of here?" " I think we will." "You think they'll let you march?" "I think that we will be able to proceed further." "And so it is our opinion that we should regroup at the Hilton Hotel." "We are not being arrested here, so we will proceed to the Hilton Hotel to regroup." "Man, please." "If Your Honor please." "The buckles on the leather strap that's holding Mr. Seale's hand are digging into his hand." "Could he be assisted?" "If the Marshal has concluded that he needs assistance, of course." "Your Honor, are we going to stop the medieval torture that's going on in this courtroom?" "This is no longer a court of order, Your Honor." "This is an unholy disgrace." " Created by Mr. Kunstler!" " Created by nothing other than what you have done to this man." "Judge, you come down here and watch this." " Fascist dogs!" " Your Honor," " he's being choked to death." " You low-life son of a bitch!" "Somebody protect him!" "Your Honor, may the record show that that comment was made by Mr. Dellinger?" "You fucking fascist pigs!" "Fascist pigs." " And that was Mr. Rubin speaking." " Everything you say will be taken down." "It's cruel, cruel and unusual punishment." "You're a fascist dog, Judge." "Why don't you just kill him if you're going to gag him?" "I mean, doesn't it seem that way?" "You are not permitted to address the court, Mr. Hoffman." "This is not a court." "It's a neon oven." "This whole thing started when these guys got into overkill." "It's the same thing as last year in Chicago!" "It's the exact same thing!" "Two blocks north, there's an open bridge." "Two blocks north, there's an open bridge." "Go north on Michigan then over to the Conrad Hilton to get through." "You go directly across the National Guard troops blocking the way with machine guns." "You're not alive." "You're a dead person with no feelings." "And you call me a long-haired freak." "But that's what this is all about, you know?" "The compassion." "Do you men ever stop to think or do you obey blindly?" "State-ordered machines." "Kill!" "Kill!" " Kill!" " Hey, kill." "Come on." " Come on, kill!" " Come on!" " Come on, I'm over here." " Kill, shoot, come on." " Just shoot." "Use those things." " Come on, shoot to kill." " Kill!" " Shoot to kill!" " Kill!" " Kill!" " Kill!" "Come on!" " Come on, shoot." "Kill!" "That's it, spray him, get him." "Watch the gas!" "Watch it, boys." "Cover your face." "Cover your face." "The cans, watch the cans!" "Jesus Christ." "Be careful, they're kids." "Let's get water." " Don't run!" " Don't run!" "Don't run!" "Don't run!" "Don't run!" "You people..." "You people on the street." "Don't get trapped by the cops and don't play games with them." "'Cause they're not playing games with us." "Stay together." "Stay together." "Don't let them stop you, don't let them provoke you, don't let them catch you alone." " Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" " Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" " Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" " Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" "Let's hold on and see what happens here." "Cut him off!" "Cut him off!" " He got him!" " He got him, he got him." "Get behind the mule train so you can follow it right to the Amphitheater." "There's an illegitimate convention being held there." "Shoot the Bar Mace, you fucking jackoff." " Peace now!" "Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Peace now!" "Peace now!" "Peace now!" " Watch it." "The cops are coming." " It's the cops." "If you want the street, take it!" "Watch it." "The cops are coming now." "Come on, move it!" "Get out of here!" "You prick ass motherfucking chump, you ain't shit!" "Mace, mace, mace." "Spray in my face, and I'll kill you." "Up against the wall, motherfucker." "Open them up." "We shall overcome" "We shall overcome" "Peace." "Get in here." "There's nothing else." "There's not our daddies." "There's no one else." "It's us." "We're the only people that can protect ourselves from genocide and protect all of us on trial and everyone else on trial." "And I have no program on what to do." "I think it's wrong for someone to get up and say, "Tell us what to do,"" "'cause you know what to do, you know where you are, you know what's effective." "And you know that across the country there are people like you who are ready to act." "And they don't need no leader telling them what to do, 'cause we're all leaders." "They don't need anyone giving orders." "They don't even need anyone giving instructions." "And I can tell you that all eight of us are going to jail with that view of history, with that view of the future." "And we're all going to jail smiling 'cause we know damn well that the people in this room are going to break the jail down and free us!" "Thank you." "With all these people here, I think the most appropriate, very human, revolutionary thing to first say, like we always say, is, "All power to the people."" "Subtitles by LeapinLar"