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Rennie Davis, 'Chicago Seven' activist, dead at 80


Rennie Davis, Chicago Seven activist, dead at 80
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Activists Jerry Rubin (left), Abbie Hoffman (center), and Rennie Davis speak with the press during a recess in their trial. The three are facing charges for conspiring to start the riots that tore through Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention
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CHICAGO - Rennie Davis, one of the
Chicago Seven activists who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that turned violent, has died. He was 80.
Davis died on Tuesday of lymphoma at his home in
Berthoud, Colorado, his wife, Kirsten Liegmann, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. ....

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Rennie Davis, 'Chicago Seven' Activist, Dies at 80 – NBC Bay Area


Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and Illinois National Guardsmen on Aug. 28, 1968, near the convention. Police clubbed demonstrators and conducted mass arrests. An investigative commission later described the clash as a “police riot.”
Richard Schultz remembers exactly where he was on the evening of Aug. 28, 1968. Along with colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s office, he was at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo, watching a riot stemming from the Democratic National Convention. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.
Davis and four co-defendants Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot during the Chicago Seven trial in 1969 and 1970. A federal appeals court overturned the convictions, citing errors by U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman. ....

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Movie reviews: 'Wonder Woman 1984' fills the superhero pandemic gap, but isn't wonderous


WONDER WOMAN 1984: 3 STARS
The release of “Wonder Woman 1984,” now available in theatres and as a 48-hour rental on digital movie stores for $29.99, comes as an answer to one of the worst dad jokes of all time.
Do you know why Diana Prince was called Wonder Woman? Because we all wondered what she was going to do next.
I know, it’s a terrible joke, but there was a great deal of talk about what was next for the character and, in pandemic times, when and how we’d be seeing the finished film.
Now that we know what Diana Prince’s next moves are, I’m wondering about something else. Where did the wonder go? ....

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