Records of U.S. Attorneys. 1821 - 1994. Records Relating to Legal Precedents

Seale, Bobby, 1936-

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Bobby Seale is the co-founder, with activist Huey P. Newton, of the Black Panther Party. Seale was one of the eight people charged by the US federal government with conspiracy charges related to anti-Vietnam War protests in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Seale's appearance in the trial was widely publicized and Seale was bound and gagged for his appearances in court more than a month into the trial for what Judge Julius Hoffman said were disruptions. Seale's c...

Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

Annenberg, Moses Louis, 1878-1942

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Rubin, Jerry

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Capone, Al, 1899-1947

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Al Capone was born January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a gangster who started his career in New York City and gained notoriety while in Chicago during the Prohibition era. He was arrested for tax evasion in 1931. He died on January 5, 1947 in Florida....

Hoffman, Julius J. (Julius Jennings), 1895-1983

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Julius Jennings Hoffman (1895-1983) was a Chicago, Illinois native attorney and judge best known for his role in the Chicago Eight trial. Hoffman attended Lewis Institute and Northwestern University before being admitted to the bar in 1915. He worked as an associate and partner of the firm White and Hawxhurst until 1936, when he became general counsel for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, where he remained until 1944 when he joined the law firm of Markheim, Hoffman, Hungerford and Sollo. In...

Kerner, Otto, 1908-1976

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Kerner was a Chicago lawyer, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, county judge, Illinois governor (1961-1968), and court of appeals judge, from which post he was removed after a criminal conviction. He spent some months in the Federal Correctional Institution at Lexington, Kentucky. From the description of Letters, August 10, 1974; January 10 and 29, 1975. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 434841882 Kerner was a Chicago lawyer, U. S....

Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004

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