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æ February 16, 1987PEOPLEChicago Seven
Their courtroom showdown with Establishment became etched in
American history, and when it was over, it had made
counterculture celebrities of the Chicago Seven, a.k.a. Rennie
Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman,
Jerry Rubin and Lee Weiner (Bobby Seale, originally the eighth
defendant, was tried separately). Now, exactly 17 years after
the acquittal on charges stemming from the 1968 Democratic
Convention protests, the recalcitrant nonconspirators reunited
for the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, an HBO drama that uses actors
as well on-camera comments by the real-life participants. "We
haven't had this many together since 1973," jokes Hoffman. "It
takes the curt system or Hollywood to get us together." Still,
reassembling the old gang in California was no easy task.
Hayden, a state assemblyman and husband of Jane Fonda, and
Froines, an associate professor at UCLA's School of Public
Health, live in the Golden State. But Seale came from
Philadelphia, where he is studying for a double master's in
political science and African-American studies at Temple. Davis
runs a high-tech financing firm in Colorado; Weiner is a fund
raiser for progressive causes in Washington; Rubin is getting
ready to open a restaurant in New York City; Hoffman has been
lecturing and writing (Steal This Urine Test is due in
September). Dellinger was the only one who could not make the
reunion photo session. His reasons, though, were pure. He was
on trial for unlawful entry in the Capitol Rotunda last August
while protesting aid to the Nicaraguan contras.