Trivia Question: Activist Abbie Hoffman declared himself an “Orphan of America” at what famous trial?
Answer: The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Hoffman and six others were accused of starting a riot outside the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Though the seven all attended that riot, it could hardly be proven that they had started the violent escalation or had even intended to in the first place. Members of the Sixties counterculture movement across America voiced outrage against the arrest of the Chicago 7, turning them into would-be political martyrs.
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