The Trial of the Chicago 7 Page #12

DAPHNE:

I’m Daphne O’Connor.

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94 INT. COURTROOM -DAY 94

DAPHNE:

Special Agent Daphne O’Conner, FBI.

Counter Intelligence.

DAPHNE is on the stand looking professional now. WEINER leans

in to FROINES and whispers-

WEINER:

You think it’s possible there were

seven demonstrators in Chicago last

summer leading 10,000 undercover

cops in protest?

FROINES nods...

SCHULTZ:

What was your assignment in

Chicago?

83.

DAPHNE:

To use Jerry Rubin to try to

infiltrate the leaders of the

protest.

JERRY shakes his head...

SCHULTZ:

You were with Jerry Rubin, Abbie

Hoffman, Rennie Davis and Dave

Dellinger the afternoon of the

27th?

DAPHNE:

Yes.

SCHULTZ:

What were the four of them doing?

DAPHNE:

They were leading a group of

protestors.

SCHULTZ:

How many would you say?

DAPHNE:

About eight-hundred.

SCHULTZ:

Where were they leading these eight-

hundred people?

DAPHNE:

To Police Headquarters at 11th and

State.

SCHULTZ:

Why?

DAPHNE:

Tom Hayden was being held there on

charges of tampering with a police

vehicle. Jerry Rubin said it was

time to confront the pigs.

SCHULTZ:

By pigs he meant-

DAPHNE:

It was time to confront the police.

84.

95 EXT. MICHIGAN AVENUE -DAY 95

ABBIE, JERRY, RENNIE as well as DAPHNE and the other

undercovers lead DEMONSTRATORS who are pouring out onto the

street from the park. We hear a call and response chant of

“Free Tom Hayden! “Free Tom Hayden!” as the crowd makes it

way up Michigan Avenue.

A POLICEMAN standing on the street is taking this in and then

reaches for his radio and calls ahead.

96 INT. POLICE STATION -DAY 96

TIGHT ON a rack of riot gear--helmets, nightsticks, etc.,

being grabbed off racks.

CUT BACK TO:

97 INT. COURTROOM -DAY 97

SAM:

I remember also at the front of the

group was Mr. Allen Ginsburg.

SCHULTZ:

Allen Ginsburg the poet.

SAM:

Yes. He was chanting a kind of war

chant.

98 EXT. MICHIGAN AVENUE -DAY 98

ALLEN GINSBURG, who’s joined the others at the front of the

group, has his hands raised and is chanting “ohmmmmm”...

JERRY:

What’s he doing?

ABBIE:

He’s calming the energy, settling

things down.

DAVE:

How’s it working so far?

99 OMIT 99

85.

100 INT. COLLEGE AUDITORIUM -NIGHT 100

ABBIE on stage-

ABBIE:

The guy testified that Ginsburg was

letting out a war chant. Some kind

of f***in’ jungle signal to beat

poets that they should begin

pelting the troopers with blank

verse.

A LAUGH from the CROWD...

ABBIE (CONT'D)

A guy in the crowd is marching with

a girl on his shoulders. She’s

waving an American flag and this

seems to really be bothering some

frat brothers who’d come to town in

the spirit of fraternity.

101 EXT. MICHIGAN AVENUE -DAY 101

A YOUNG WOMAN in a beret is being carried on the shoulders of

a demonstrator as they march. She’s carrying a flag and being

shouted at by three FRAT BOYS on the sidewalk.

FRAT BOYS:

(screaming)

Put the flag down! Put it down! Go

to the kitchen and make me a

sandwich!

JERRY:

I’m gonna go back there and take

care of that.

ABBIE:

They’re not the enemy.

JERRY:

In so many f***in’ ways they are.

FRAT BOYS:

Put down the goddam flag you ugly

b*tch! Go to the kitchen and make

me a f***in’ sandwich!

CUT BACK TO:

86.

102 INT. COURTROOM -DAY 102

WOJOHOWSKI:

The group turned right on 11th

Street.

103 INT. COLLEGE AUDITORIUM -NIGHT 103

ABBIE:

We make a right on 11th Street.

104 INT. COURTROOM -DAY 104

DAPHNE:

And that’s when they saw it.

105 EXT. 11TH STREET -DAY 105

ABBIE:

Holy sh*t.

JERRY:

Jesus.

The RIOT POLICE are pouring out of the station and forming a

line in the middle of the street.

ABBIE:

Are they about to conquer Spain?

JERRY:

(beat--let’s do it anyway)

Well f*** it.

DAVE:

What do you mean f*** it?

JERRY:

This is it. It’s time. Here we are.

ABBIE:

We’re not rushing the police.

JERRY:

Why the f*** not?

ABBIE:

Because we’ll be critically

injured.

87.

RENNIE:

Tom doesn’t want anyone hurt.

DAVE:

We’ve gotta turn this crowd around.

There’s too much momentum, we’ve

gotta turn ‘em around and calm ‘em

down.

DAPHNE:

(to JERRY)

He’s right. This isn’t safe, I know

something about this.

DAVE gets on his walkie-talkie-

DAVE:

(into the walkie-talkie)

All marshals--slow ‘em down and

turn ‘em around. It’s the Alamo up

here. Turn ‘em around and get ‘em

safely back in the park.

JERRY:

We should be marching right up to

them.

ABBIE:

I don’t think they’re gonna

surrender man. Keep ‘em moving.

Dave and I are gonna stay and make

Tom’s bail.

(to DAVE)

I don’t carry money, do you?

DAVE:

I do, I’m a grown man.

The rest of the leaders start heading back where they came

from as ALLEN GINSBURG holds out his arms in a meditation

position and lets out a soft “ohmmmmm...”

JERRY:

You’re killin’ me, Allen. You’re

goddam killin’ me.

(shouting)

Keep ‘em moving.

88.

106 INT. COLLEGE AUDITORIUM -NIGHT 106

ABBIE:

The marshals are spreading the word

that we’re gonna keep moving, go

left on Roosevelt and back in the

park, right?

107 INT. COURTROOM -DAY 107

DAPHNE:

When they got to the park they saw

that three divisions of police

officers had moved in from the

south.

108 EXT. GRANT PARK -DAY 108

JERRY, RENNIE and the DEMONSTRATORS approach and see that

there are lines and lines of police officers that have formed

at the top of the hill in the park.

109 INT. COLLEGE AUDITORIUM -NIGHT 109

ABBIE:

I don’t know what tactical genius

came up with that, but you know

when sh*t happens? When you don’t

give protestors a place to go.

110 INT. COURTROOM -DAY 110

SCHULTZ:

How would you characterize the mood

of the crowd?

KUNSTLER:

The witness is in no position to

characterize the mood of a thousand

strangers.

JUDGE HOFFMAN:

Do you have an objection?

KUNSTLER:

Yes sir.

JUDGE HOFFMAN:

On what grounds?

89.

KUNSTLER:

On those grounds.

And ABBIE and JERRY lead the gallery in a chorus of-

ALL:

Overruled!

JUDGE HOFFMAN:

I will clear this courtroom!

SCHULTZ:

Mr. Wojohowski?

WOJOHOWSKI:

The crowd was looking for a fight.

111 EXT. GRANT PARK -DAY 111

The DEMONSTRATORS are now faced off with the POLICE.

JERRY:

(shouting)

You’re pigs! Your children are

pigs!

RENNIE:

We should leave their children out

of it.

JERRY:

You’re right, I know, you’re right.

112 INT. COURTROOM -DAY 112

SCOTT:

“White, honkey m-f-ers, get out of

our park!” And then he said, “Look

at ‘em-

113 EXT. GRANT PARK -DAY 113

JERRY:

--they don’t look so tough.

RENNIE:

Well...the guns...

90.

JERRY:

(shouting)

Put down your guns, motherfuckers,

we’ll fight like f***in’ men!

RENNIE:

Just so you know, I do not have

your back on that.

114 INT. COLLEGE AUDITORIUM -NIGHT 114

ABBIE:

And the guys from Kappa Gamma

Douchebag who were hassling the

girl? They’re back.

115 EXT. GRANT PARK -DAY 115

FRAT BOYS:

Put the flag down! Put it down! Put

the goddam flag down you c*nt! Make

me a sandwich!

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