The Chicago 7: Mark Levine

OCCUPY!: An Unfinished Uprising · Jul 8, 2021 · 52m

Publication of Transcript

Levine and the co-editors were outraged by what was happening in the trial and wanted to make sure the general public knew what was going on in that courtroom. They decided to buy the transcripts from the court reporter and edited over 22,000 pages of transcript into a compilation of the most shocking colloquies, which reveal the immense effort put forth by the government to quash dissent against the war in Vietnam and the injustice of Judge Hoffman's court. About 180,000 copies were sold shortly after the book was published.

Injustice

Judge Julius Hoffman was…