Posted on 02/03/2021 10:57:22 AM PST by Borges
Rennie Davis, who lived out one of the more quixotic journeys of the 1960s generation when he went from leading opponent of the Vietnam War, as a convicted member of the Chicago Seven, to spokesman for a teenage Indian guru, died on Tuesday at his home in Longmont, Colo. He was 79.
His wife, Kirsten Liegmann, who announced the death on his Facebook page, said the cause was lymphoma, adding that a large tumor had been discovered only two weeks ago.
Smart, charismatic and a blur of energy and engagement, Mr. Davis was a leading figure of the antiwar movement. After graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio, he joined the top ranks of the activist organization Students for a Democratic Society and the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
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Well... ‘bye.
Why post this?
BURN IN HELL!
That’s back when the Dems weren’t in power and they liked insurrection.
A member of the SDS, a violent group.
The only remaining of the “Seven” is John Froines.
It’s an important part of American history. Cops started a riot and then blamed the people whose heads they bashed.
Wasn’t he in a cartoon with Stimpy?
Hasta la vista.
About time, worthless piece of filth.
Not correct. According to Wiki:
Lee Weiner is alive and lives in Florida.
The 8th defendant, Bobby Seale is also still breathing.
A commie descends to his eternal reward.
Oh you’re right about Weiner! Seale though was not one of the Chicago Seven (he was the 8th).
Buh bye, commie Rennie.
The Baltimore Sun reposting of a Chicago Tribune article.
The only Chicagoan of the Chicago 7 just wrote a memoir and says he’s a fan of the Netflix movie ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’
By CHRISTOPHER BORRELLI, CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
OCT 15, 2020
Lee Weiner was the only defendant in the 1969 trial of the Chicago 7 who was from Chicago. He grew up in South Shore; while facing federal charges of inciting a riot and teaching his fellow protestors to build Molotov cocktails, he was a research assistant in the sociology department at Northwestern University. Yet, in the new Aaron Sorkin movie, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” which hits Netflix on Friday, Weiner is barely a supporting character. Which isn’t far from the truth: If the Chicago 8 (as they were initially) was considered a dream team of magnetic war protestors — Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis — Weiner was a relative nobody, “a strangely remote figure,” according to J. Anthony Lukas, the Chicago-based New York Times reporter who covered the trial.
Indeed, if Weiner is remembered from the trial at all, it’s for the contempt charge that he received after loudly correcting the judge’s mispronunciation of his name.
Judge: WEE-ner.
Weiner: WHY-ner.
My feelings exactly.
And the Devil have him.
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