Entertainment at the “Chicago Seven” Trial
The trial of the “Chicago Seven”—activists indicted for conspiring to foment a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention—took on a circus atmosphere, with counterculture defendants confronting a contemptuous judge. When folksinger Judy Collins (b. 1939), on the witness stand, answered a question by singing “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” the judge ordered her to stop, saying “We are not here to be entertained.” Cartoonist Jules Feiffer (b. 1929), in the courtroom, captured the ensuing moment.
The trial of the “Chicago Seven”—activists indicted for conspiring to foment a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention—took on a circus atmosphere, with counterculture defendants confronting a contemptuous judge. When folksinger Judy Collins (b. 1939), on the witness stand, answered a question by singing “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” the judge ordered her to stop, saying “We are not here to be entertained.” Cartoonist Jules Feiffer (b. 1929), in the courtroom, captured the ensuing moment.