David Dellinger (August 22, 1915 – May 25, 2004), one of the most influential American radicals of the 20th century, was a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change.
Dellinger achieved peak notoriety as one of the Chicago Seven, protesters whose disruption of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to charges of conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot. The ensuing court case was turned by ...
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David Dellinger (August 22, 1915 – May 25, 2004), one of the most influential American radicals of the 20th century, was a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change.
Dellinger achieved peak notoriety as one of the Chicago Seven, protesters whose disruption of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to charges of conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot. The ensuing court case was turned by Dellinger and his co-defendants into a nationally-publicized platform for putting the Vietnam War on trial. On February 18, 1970, they were acquitted of the conspiracy charge but five defendants (including Dellinger) were convicted of individually crossing state lines to incite a riot. Among other appearances during this period, Dellinger appeared at the 12/10/72 gathering of music and political views in favor of the then-jailed John Sinclair, who was imprisoned for minor cannabis possession in an action by the state that many viewed as unjust...
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