The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the Press

The Festival of Life: ‘Chicago 1968’ Through the Lens of Post-Truth

“…And according to Yippie and activist Stew Albert, in an interview with Nick Sharman in 2005, they also aimed to make young people feel braver and safer about mobilising against the war in Vietnam and the injustices of capitalist society. 11 In 1968, Hoffman outlined his aims as "nothing short of destroying Amerika and its institutions of racism, imperialism, capitalism and the protestant ethic." 12 Other enemies he identified were [to quote] corporate America, Xerox, corporate liberalism, Harvard University, Robert Kennedy and The New York Times among a host of other symbols of liberal America.…”