The city was the center of the Gainesville Eight case in the 1970s, in which eight activists were accused of conspiracy to violently disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.
A cidade foi o centro do chamado caso dos Oito de Gainesville na década de 1970, no que oito activistas anti-Vietnam foron acusados de conspiración por interromper violentamente a Convención Nacional Republicana de 1972 en Miami Beach.