Protest on trial : the Seattle 7 conspiracy

Title Protest on trial : the Seattle 7 conspiracy
Other Title Seattle Seven conspiracy story
Names Bakke, Kit.
Book Number DBC00241
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Download Link Downloadable talking book.
Annotation In 1970, the Seattle 7 were young political activists known as the Seattle Liberation Front who were dedicated to changing society and partying. After successfully organizing demonstrations they were brought to trial on grounds of inciting riot. The trial became political theater. NOTE: An interview with the author, conducted by Florrie Munat at the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, is included. 2018.
General Notes Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library.
Local Notes "The Seattle 7 embodied late 1960s counterculture--young, idealistic, active organizers against racism and the Vietnam War, and fond of long hair, rock'n'roll, sex, drugs, and parties. In January 1970 they founded the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF). Nationally, the FBI was practicing secret and illegal tactics such as wiretapping, warrantless break-ins, and the placing of informers and provocateurs to destroy organizations like the SLF. But in Seattle, it went a step further. Months after a February 1970 protest at Seattle's downtown federal building turned violent, seven SLF leaders were arrested. Michael Abeles, Jeff Dowd, Joe Kelly, Michael Lerner, Roger Lippman, Chip Marshall, and Susan Stern faced federal conspiracy and intent to riot indictments. During their chaotic trial in nearby Tacoma, they received a twelve-day crash course in the real American judicial system. Celebrated Spokane lawyer Carl Maxey and nationally known attorney Michael Tigar led the defense team; the U.S. prosecuting attorney was Stan Pitkin, a young and upcoming Nixon appointee. When Pitkin's key witness faltered and the government's case appeared doomed, the presiding judge issued a surprise ruling to end the trial and send the defendants to prison. For this solidly researched oral history, the author conducted dozens of interviews with six defendants, their attorneys, FBI agents, journalists, jurors, the U.S. Marshal, and SLF members, supporters, and critics. She also accessed the trial transcript, appeals briefs and depositions, newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, and other ephemera of the times, as well as memoirs and books." -- Publisher's website.
Narrator Munat, Florrie.
Length 11 hours, 5 minutes
Local Subject History - HI
Northwest history - NW8
Government and politics - SO3
Northwest nonfiction - NW2
Legal issues - SO9
Strong language - ST
Adult book - AD
Nonfiction - NF
U.S. History - HI1
Northwest - NW
Female narrator - FN
Produced at WTBBL - PAW
LC Subject Anti-war demonstrations - United States - History
Dissenters - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History
Trials (Conspiracy) - Washington (State)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States
Trial and arbitral proceedings
Nonfiction
Audience Notes A NLS/BPH
Call Number 345.730243 ANF
Language English
Contents What's it all about? -- Part 1: Dissent -- The lay of the land -- Meet the Seattle 8 -- Seattle needs liberating -- TDA: The day after: stop the courts! -- Action and reaction -- Spring into summer -- Gearing up for trial -- Part 2: Trial -- Let the circus begin -- A peerless jury is seated -- Jail them, not us -- The rise and fall of an FBI provocateur -- Calm before the storm -- Mistrial! -- A double dose of contempt -- Part 3: Consequences -- Jailed without bail -- "Free," eventually -- The years after -- Epilogue: the harmony of dissonance.
Released 2018
Publication Info Seattle : Washington State University Press 2018
Original Publication Recorded from: Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2018] 9780874223569
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