
Less than an hour after pulling into Park City I ran into
Chicago 10 director Brett Morgen outside the Riverhorse Cafe. The partly animated, new-style, heavily-hyped doc about the trial of the Chicago 8 (i.e., Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, et. al. -- all prosecuted for allegedly inciting violent demonstrations against the government during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago), will screen tomorrow night at the Eccles
twice, at 6 pm and 9 pm. I asked Morgen why it''s called
Chicago 10 when there were eight defendants -- he said it's because the defendants' two attorneys,
William Kuntsler and
Leonard Weinglass, were spiritual pro-movement guerillas who wound up getting prison sentences along with everyone else and were just as much "in the dock" as the defendants.
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