The Chicago Conspiracy Circus
June, 1970
The Chicago Conspiracy Circus"Screw the war, screw racism. The big issue now is prison reform,"Abbie Hoffman said shortly before he and his six codefendants were sentenced to jail. Later, when a higher court let them out of prison, pending appeal, he and his buddy, Jerry Rubin, resurfaced in a fury of complaints about roaches, the plumbing and the food served in Cook County Jail. But he was wrong. The big issue for millions of people was how these men had come to be indicted and what h...