The Chicago Ten

The "Chicago Ten" is a term referring to those sentenced in a famous trial over anti-Vietnam War protests. The trial itself spanned 1969 to 1970. The original defendants were referred to as the Chicago Eight, altered to the Chicago Seven after the trial of the first defendant (Bobby Seale) ended in a mistrial. Jerry Rubin, one of the defendants, was widely quoted as saying, "Really we’re the Chicago Ten, because our two lawyers went down with us." William Kunstler, one of the lawyers, received the longest sentence (48 months), although it was reversed. A few of the other members of the group included Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden (who later married Jane Fonda).
==References==
* The blacklist of names read by Howard Handupme in "Nuts to War, Part II" includes Hoffman, Rubin, Seale, Kuntzler (sic), and Hayden, in reference to the Chicago 10.
* An unfinished Sesame Street "Mysterious Theater" sketch, starring Hercules Parrot and intended for Season 25, is titled "The Chicago Ten" (in this case, referring to an artwork of the number 10).
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