The Trial Of Chicago 7 Cast and Crew Soundbite Interviews
About the Story
It’s 1968 and the United States is in turmoil. Martin Luther King Jr. is gunned down by an assassin in Memphis, Robert F. Kennedy is shot and killed in Los Angeles. The Vietnam War is at its height with over 30,000 American casualties and 1,000 more U.S. troops killed each month. In August, scores of antiwar protestors gather outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and are tear gassed and beaten by police and the National Guard.
The following year, eight activists - Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis of the Students for a Democratic Society, counter-culture Yippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, MOBE organizers David Dellinger, John Froines, and Lee Weiner, and Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale - are put on trial for conspiring to incite a riot outside the Democratic Convention. Noted civil rights attorney William Kunstler works to defend this odd lot of antiwar activists against charges brought by a new Republican administration aiming to stifle and silence the movement. The whole world watches as the defendants face an unjust judge in one of the most bizarre and momentous trials in American history, The Trial of the Chicago 7.
CAST:
YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II AS BOBBY SEALE
SACHA BARON COHEN AS ABBIE HOFFMAN
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT AS RICHARD SCHULTZ
MICHAEL KEATON AS RAMSEY CLARK
FRANK LANGELLA AS JUDGE JULIUS HOFFMAN
JOHN CARROLL LYNCH AS DAVID DELLINGER
EDDIE REDMAYNE AS TOM HAYDEN
MARK RYLANCE AS WILLIAM KUNSTLER
ALEX SHARP AS RENNIE DAVIS
JEREMY STRONG AS JERRY RUBIN
NOAH ROBBINS AS LEE WEINER
DANNY FLAHERTY AS JOHN FROINES
BEN SHENKMAN AS LEONARD WEINGLASS
KELVIN HARRISON JR. AS FRED HAMPTON
CAITLIN FITZGERALD AS AGENT DAPHNE O’CONNOR
JOHN DOMAN AS JOHN MITCHELL
J.C. MACKENZIE AS THOMAS FORAN
Timeline of Events:
MARCH 1965: U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War escalates with the launch of Operation Rolling Thunder, a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam. 3,500 Marines are deployed under the order of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
JULY 28, 1965: In a nationally televised speech, President Johnson announces he is increasing American military troops dispatched to South Vietnam by an additional 50,000, with plans to double the draft from 17,000 troops per month to 35,000. The move sparks mass resistance movements across the country, especially on college campuses, where many young Americans took refuge from the draft.
OCTOBER 15, 1966: The Black Panther Party, a revolutionary group initially formed as a self-defense organization that challenged police brutality against Black Americans, is founded in Oakland, California by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.
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