Testimony at the Trial of the Chicago Seven
Mailer's testimony at the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, edited from the official transcript and collected in The Tales of Hoffman; he explains his involvement with Jerry Rubin and summarizes his 1968 Grant Park speech.
Mailer’s testimony at the trial of the Chicago Seven — the antiwar defendants charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago — appears in The Tales of Hoffman, edited from the official transcript by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee, and Daniel Greenberg (New York: Bantam, March 1970, 204–7), with an introduction by Dwight Macdonald. In it Mailer explains his involvement with Jerry Rubin, one of those indicted, and summarizes the speech he gave at Grant Park during the convention — a speech reproduced in Miami and the Siege of Chicago (68.25). Mailer’s press-conference remarks on the testimony are reported in 70.3 and 70.4, where the presiding judge, Julius J. Hoffman, is said to have chided Mailer for loquacity.
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