![]() ![]() Among those who went to his funeral were co-defendants in the Chicago 7 trial Rubin and David Dellinger.Reflecting the headlines of both the 1960s and today, Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated Netflix movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 features a cast of big-name actors including Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jeremy Strong. At the time of his death, his FBI file was over 13,000 pages long. He was found surrounded by hundreds of pages of handwritten notes. ![]() He was acquitted after defending himself in court.Īt the age of 52, nine years after being diagnosed as bipolar, Hoffman killed himself via an overdose. In 1986, he was arrested again for trespassing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in protest of the CIA recruiting there. He then served four months of a year-long sentence. He lived in disguise and under a false name for six years to escape this charge after skipping bail, only handing himself in 1980. In 1973, he was arrested again, this time for intent to sell and distribute cocaine. He later would say he was on a bad LSD trip at the time. Among those he managed to annoy were the band The Who, whose performance at Woodstock he interrupted in protest of White Panther Party leader John Sinclair being imprisoned. He killed himself in 1989."Īfter the Chicago 7 trial, Hoffman remained a countercultural icon, though a controversial one. The Trial of the Chicago 7 title card on Hoffman reads: "Abbie Hoffman wrote a best-selling book, though the number of copies in circulation is unknown as the title is Steal This Book. ![]() He also got involved in multi-level marketing, including for a health drink that counted Rubin's one-time fellow co-defendant Bobby Seale as one of its salespeople.Īfter being hit by a car in 1994, he died at the UCLA Medical Center of a heart attack two weeks after the accident. He became a Wall Street stockbroker in 1980, becoming an early advocate for business networking. Yuppie" debate tour in which Rubin argued for his new-found monetarism compared to Hoffman's continued belief in their old ideals. In the 1980s, he and friend Abbie Hoffman embarked on a "Yippie vs. Among his major investments, he was an early investor in Apple, and became a multimillionaire by the end of the 1970s. In 1994, he was hit by a car and killed while jaywalking near the campus of UCLA."Īfter his time co-founding the Youth International Party (Yippies) and the Chicago 7, Rubin retired from politics in the mid-1970s and became a businessman. Title cards tell us: "Jerry Rubin became a stockbroker. That trial has now been made into a Netflix movie. Attorney declined to re-try the case." What happened to the real Chicago 7 after the trial?Īctivists Jerry Rubin (left), Abbie Hoffman (center), and Rennie Davis speak with the press during a recess in their trial in the so-called 'Chicago 7' trial. "The verdict was reversed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and a new trial was ordered. These title cards read in part: "Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin and Rennie Davis were found guilty of incitement to riot and sentenced to 5 years in federal prison. However, they only give us scant detail about what happened next. The movie, however, focuses entirely on the court case and the events at the DNC that led up to it, meaning that we only get a little detail about what happened to Abbie Hoffman (played by Sacha Baron Cohen), Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch), Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), John Froines (Daniel Flaherty), and Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins) after the trial.Īs we might expect from a film like this based on real historical events, we get title cards at the end detailing the aftermath of the events depicted in the film. The Trial of the Chicago 7 is streaming on Netflix now, and sees director and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin tell the true story of the eponymous Chicago 7, a group charged with incitement to riot after fights between police and protestors broke out during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. ![]()
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