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Dellinger, One of the Chicago Seven, Dies

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By DAVID GRAM, Associated Press Writer

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Peace activist David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven arrested and tried for their part in the violent anti-war protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, has died at 88.



Dellinger died Tuesday, said Peggy Rocque, administrator of Heaton Woods, the Montpelier retirement home where the activist had been living.


Dellinger was a pacifist who devoted much of his life to protesting. A member of the Old Left whose first arrest came in the 1930s during a union-organizing protest at Yale, he was a generation older than his Yippie co-defendants in the Chicago Seven case.





At the Chicago Seven trial in 1969 and 1970, Dellinger and four co-defendants — Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and Rennie Davis — were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 convention. Those convictions were overturned by a federal appeals court, which cited errors by U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman.


When Hoffman invited Dellinger to address the court during sentencing, he continued to speak after the judge ordered him to stop.


"You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade, and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth," Dellinger told the judge. "And the fact is, I am not prepared to do that."




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In the name of peace.

Thank you, Mr. Dellinger! Rest in Peace -- nobody deserves it more!



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