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| | 1969: Chicago 7--trial by fire |
 | | Foran, who was U.S. attorney when the trial began late in 1969, personally prosecuted a group of protesters charged with inciting riots at the Democratic National Convention a year earlier. |
 | | The trial took four months, as defense attorney William Kunstler called to the stand a parade of witnesses that included Judy Collins, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Pete Seeger, William Styron and Mayor Richard J. Daley. |
 | | During the trial's first week, a group called the Weathermen engaged in violent street demonstrations in what they called "The Days of Rage." One day an assistant corporation counsel named Richard J. Elrod was on Madison near Clark when he saw police chasing a protester and yelling, "Stop him!" |
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