Marco Margaritoff is a Staff Writer at All That's Interesting. In early 1968, the National Mobilization Committee opened a Chicago office directed by Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden, who were leading political organizers at the time and former leaders of Students for a Democratic Society. As part of the Chicago Seven, he was charged with conspiracy to incite a riot while crossing state lines at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. XIV No. Through carefully crafted production, the film blurs the lines between 1968 and 2020, rightfully so. The government did not re-try the case, and thereafter elected to dismiss the substantive charges. MOBE was an umbrella organization that included groups who were opposed to American participation in the Vietnam War. He spoke many times about the era that planted his name in the American consciousness as a radical firebrand, anti-Vietnam War protester and defendant in the Chicago 7 conspiracy trial. [31], Hayden later served in the California State Assembly (1982–1992) and the State Senate (1992–2000). Students for a Democratic SocietyThe manifesto sold for 25 cents apiece with 60,000 copies distributed. By the time he was a senior, he was an editor of the college paper — and he had what he called a “summer of transformation.”. “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” written by acclaimed screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, tells the true story of the 8 men put on trial for inciting violence during the 1968 Chicago riots that followed the assassinations of JFK, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Hayden then attended the University of Michigan, where he was editor of the Michigan Daily. They also blamed seven other key activists who were involved. He mounted a bid in the Democratic primary for California Governor during 1994 on the theme of campaign finance reform and ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1997, losing to incumbent Republican Richard Riordan. "The Politics of 'The Movement'", in Irving Howe (ed.). The group played a big role in protesting the war outside of Chicago's DNC that year, protests that were broken up by what the U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence called "a police riot," according to the New York Times. An anti-Vietnam War protest had long been planned, but things soon spiralled out of control. Davis and four co-defendants - Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger - were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot during the 'Chicago Seven' trial in 1969 and 1970. Of course, being a Freedom Rider wasn’t easy. the "Chicago Seven" after Bobby Seale's case was separated from the others. Plot. The fee has been established at several dozen colleges, and it may be used "to provide support for governmental affairs representatives of local or statewide student body organizations who may be stating their positions and viewpoints before city, county, and district governments, and before offices and agencies of state government". [12] By the end of 1964 ERAP had ten inner-city projects engaging 125 student volunteers. August 1968. Refined and adopted at the first Students for Democratic Society (SDS) convention in June 1962, the Port Huron Statement called for a "new left" committed, in the spirit of participatory democracy, to "deliberativeness, honesty [and] reflection. And as the Vietnam War escalated in 1963, so did Hayden’s efforts to stop it. Michael Finnegan (October 23, 2016). denied, 410 U.S. 970, 93 S.Ct. The riot that overshadowed the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. Tom Hayden remembers the first time he tried to enter the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Chicago's Michigan Avenue.. In 1973, he married actress Jane Fonda, whom he’d met at an antiwar rally. The group planned the October 8–11 event as a "National Action" built around John Jacobs' slogan "bring the war home", which grew out of a resolution drafted by Jacobs and introduced at the October 1968 … Robin Platzer/IMAGES/Getty ImagesTom Hayden and his ex-wife Jane Fonda at the Los Angeles premiere of The China Syndrome in 1979. Edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee and Daniel Greenberg / Foreword by Aaron Sorkin. The demonstrations were broken up by what was later called by the U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence "a police riot". [3] As a result, when he graduated in 1956,[4][1] he was banned from attending his graduation ceremony and only received a diploma.[3]. Writing about Hayden's role in the 1960s New Left, Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent for The Atlantic, said that "Tom Hayden changed America", calling him "father to the largest mass protests in American history", and Richard N. Goodwin, who was a speechwriter for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said that Hayden, "without even knowing it, inspired the Great Society. [39], In his tribute to Hayden following his death, former US President Bill Clinton stated: "Hillary and I knew him for more than thirty years and valued both his words of support and his criticism. [5] They married in October the following year. While Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming Netflix movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 hopes to deliver a breathtaking courtroom drama, the true story of the Chicago Seven and its role in Tom Hayden’s life is even more inspiring. Protesters clash with the National Guard during the August 1968 riots at the Democratic National Convention. King advised Hayden, “Ultimately, you have to take a stand with your life.” Hayden later wrote, “As I left the line, and later as I left Los Angeles, I asked myself why I should be only observing and chronicling this movement instead of participating in it.”. It called for equal opportunity for all — and denounced the hypocrisies in the political system. In the same year, while the Vietnam War was still ongoing, the documentary film Introduction to the Enemy, a collaboration by Fonda, Hayden, Haskell Wexler and others, was released. "[27] Staughton Lynd, though, was critical of the Port Huron and New Left concept of "participatory democracy", stating: "We must recognize that when an organization grows to a certain size, consensus decision-making is no longer possible, and some form of representative government becomes necessary. During 2001, he unsuccessfully sought election to the Los Angeles City Council. Bettmann/Getty ImagesHayden addresses reporters in Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Building. The 1968 Chicago riots, in the United States, were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. King’s words of wisdom would stay with Hayden forever, as he recalled in his memoir, Reunion. Jane Fonda, a supporter of the IPC, later turned this moniker into a name for her film production firm, IPC Films, which produced in whole or in part, movies and documentaries such as F.T.A. The Trial of the Chicago 7 revisits the circus-like legal proceedings that pitted anti-war activists including Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Black Panther Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and lawyer Bill Kunstler (Mark Ryland) against a hard-nosed judge (Frank Langella) over charges that they conspired to incite violent riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. “The effect of this ‘anti-riot’ act is to subvert the first Amendmentguarantee of free assembly by equating organized political protest with organized violence,” it read. Eventually, 60,000 copies of the statement were distributed for 25 cents apiece. While Hayden lost against California Senator John V. Tunney in 1976, he quickly picked himself up and successfully won a seat in the California Legislature in 1982 and held his seat for a decade. In 1974, he appeared in a brief scene as an ER doctor in the film Death Wish. This page was last edited on 11 February 2021, at 22:52. Over 100 major U.S. cities experienced disturbances, resulting in roughly $50 million in damage. It was from a prison cell in Albany, Georgia, where their ride was to land him, that Hayden began writing the SDS manifesto. Tom Hayden and his ex-wife Jane Fonda at the Los Angeles premiere of, Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden in the upcoming Netflix film, died from complications related to a stroke. "[7] The sponsoring League for Industrial Democracy (LID) took immediate issue. He was there to witness the 1967 Newark Riots which, in Rebellion in Newark (1967), he tried to place in a larger social and economic context. Firmly politically engaged by 1960, Tom Hayden managed to snag an interview with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. amidst the masses outside the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. [48], American social and political activist, author, and politician (1939–2016), For other people named Thomas Hayden, see. The Chicago Seven (originally Chicago Eight, also Conspiracy Eight/Conspiracy Seven) were seven defendants - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner - charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to countercultural protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968 … He also traveled to the North Vietnam capital of Hanoi. Unsurprisingly, Hayden quickly became a counterculture icon — and he also got into a lot of trouble. And it was at the University of Michigan where he truly found his purpose. This 64-page manifesto called for “participatory democracy,” through which his generation could truly have a voice. "[28], In 2007, Hayden made news for his speech at the wedding of his son Troy, where, as Hilton Als wrote in The New Yorker, he "said that he was especially happy about his son's union with actress Simone Bent, who is black, because, among other things, it was 'another step in a long-term goal of mine: the peaceful, non-violent disappearance of the white race. [citation needed]. The result of this tour of North Vietnam, at a high point in the war, was a book titled The Other Side. Regardless of the bleak prospects ahead, Hayden continued to fight for what he thought was right — and even joined the system he’d battled all along to create change from within. It almost cost him his diploma. Davis and four co-defendants — Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger — were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot during the “Chicago Seven" trial in 1969 and 1970. He ultimately held on to that seat for eight years. While Fonda was derided as “Hanoi Jane,” Hayden was also heavily criticized for his then-girlfriend’s photo. Rennie Davis, one of the “Chicago Seven” activists put on trial for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic Convention, died Tuesday. “Potentially, t… Comprising the original Chicago Eight figureheads were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Hayden, and Bobby Seale. Hayden addresses reporters in Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Building. In 1967 he joined SDS leader Tom Hayden and traveled to an international conference of student radicals in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was married to Jane Fonda for 17 years, and was the father of actor Troy Garity. The primary cause of the demonstrations and the subsequent riots during the 1968 Chicago convention was opposition to the Vietnam War. He was 76 years old. [45][46] He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, California,[47] where he was the first interment in "Eternal Meadow," an eco-friendly section. The demonstrations were broken up by what was later called by the U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence "a police riot". He was the author or editor of 19 books, including The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama, Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader, and his memoir, Reunion, and served on the editorial board of The Nation. [34] Hayden served as a member of the advisory board for the Progressive Democrats of America, an organization created to increase progressive political cooperation and influence within the Democratic Party. “The radicalism of the 1960s is fast becoming the common sense of the 1970s,” said Hayden. He visited as soon as 1967, when North Vietnamese leaders asked him to bring three prisoners of war back to the United States. Tom Hayden however worried that there would be mass arrests and a further escalation in violence, he urged protesters to disperse to the streets in small groups and try to make their way back to the Hilton Hotel. Hayden in the thick of protests during the Democratic National Convention. These meetings would later have serious consequences. Although Hayden’s visits to Vietnam remained controversial, the State Department did thank him for this humanitarian action. The guilty verdicts were overturned on appeal. Organized riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago; Married Jane Fonda and organized with her a successful lobby to cut off U.S. aid to Cambodia and Vietnam ; Former Democratic Assemblyman and Senator in California; Blamed U.S. policies for the 9/11 terrorist attacks; Died in October 2016; Additional Resources. United States v. Dellinger, 472 F.2d 340 (7th Cir. "The radical inside the system’: Tom Hayden, protester-turned-politician, dies at 76. MOBE was an umbrella organization that included groups who were opposed to American participation in the Vietnam War. Upon graduating in 1961, SDS founder Al Haber offered Hayden a position as a field secretary in the South. [22], Hayden made several subsequent well-publicized visits to North Vietnam as well as Cambodia during America's involvement in the Vietnam War, which had expanded under President Richard M. Nixon to include the adjoining nations of Laos and Cambodia, although he did not accompany his future wife, actress Jane Fonda, on her especially controversial trip to Hanoi in the spring of 1972. I know many of you feel very connected to and inspired by... Posted by Rennie Davis on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. But with strong ideals and experience with activism under his belt, the 22-year-old drafted the Port Huron Statement — a call for a cultural revolution. Hayden speaking to protesters at Chicago’s Lincoln Park. Hayden died in Santa Monica, California, on October 23, 2016, aged 76, following a lengthy illness, including a stroke. From 1972 to 1975, Hayden’s Indochina Peace Campaign helped mobilize dissent against the Vietnam War in Boston, New York, Detroit, and Santa Clara, California. A federal appeals court overturned the convictions, citing … By William F. Jasper However, Hayden had failed to positively sway the elections. [38] Though he originally leaned towards Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary, Hayden later announced he would support Hillary Clinton and cast his vote for her when the primary reached California. And hundreds of protesters were arrested, with estimates ranging from 589 to over 650. [37], Hayden was known widely in California as a staunch endorser of animal rights and was responsible for writing the bill popularly known as the Hayden Act, which improved protection of pets and extended holding periods for pets confined as strays or surrendered to shelters. NetflixEddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden in the upcoming Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7. As the SDS became an influential entity of the New Left movement, Hayden became one of the most prominent spokesmen of his generation. Antiwar activist Tom Hayden listens to student leaders in 1980. The IPC, operating in Boston, New York, Detroit and Santa Clara, mobilized dissent against the Vietnam War and demanded unconditional amnesty for U.S. draft evaders, among other aims. Hayden's 1960s were a decade of dissent marked by civil rights sit-ins, anti-war marches, the Chicago riots and scenes of kids being tear-gassed and clubbed on American campuses. "The radicalism of the 1960s is fast becoming the common sense of the 1970s", The New York Times reported him saying at the time. Prohibited from attending his own 1957 graduation, Hayden simply picked up his diploma and left high school behind, ready for college. Early Life & Education. Though all were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot, Seale was later tried separately — with the rest thus dubbed the Chicago Seven. Hayden lived in Los Angeles from 1971[43] and was married to his third wife, Barbara Williams, at the time of his death. [21] Six months after the convention, he and seven other protesters including Rennie Davis, For three years in Newark, he worked with a community union to organize poor black residents to take on slumlords, city inspectors and others. 1443, 35 L.Ed.2d 706 (1973). Over 100 major U.S. cities experienced disturbances, resulting in roughly $50 million in damage. The riot in question took place outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention — and it happened during an incredibly tense time in American history. Unsurprisingly, Hayden quickly became a counterculture icon — and he also got into a lot of trouble. Bettmann/Getty ImagesHayden speaking to protesters at Chicago’s Lincoln Park. His involvement in the Chicago riots was centered around his intention to cross state lines to riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention in the wake of the Reverand Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination. [25][26] Hayden and Fonda divorced in 1990. : 1–2. The Law of the Press was one of the courses he taught. [32] During this time, he was frequently protested by conservative groups, including Vietnamese refugees, veterans of the U.S. military and Young Americans for Freedom. [1] Hayden attended a Catholic elementary school, where he read out loud to nuns and "learned to fear hell. However, none of them were found guilty of conspiracy. [15] His profile in Newark attracted the attention of the FBI. Davis and four co-defendants — Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger — were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot during the “Chicago Seven" trial in 1969 and 1970. With twenty-five years experience in Chicago and across the country, Alinsky was considered the father of community organizing. Indiana cop fired for neo-Nazi internet forum ties. Chapter 1238 enacted Section 76060.5 of the California Education Code. Chicago Seven, group of political activists who were arrested for their antiwar activities during the August While he continued to fight for progressive causes, Hayden began to view his youthful endeavors as “overly romantic.”, During the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement, he admitted, “You don’t navigate challenges and remain unchanged. On December 10, 1961, the Haydens participated in one of the many “freedom rides” taking place in response to the 1960 Boynton v. Virginia decision. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. [10], Convinced, in the words of the Statement, that students must "look outwards to the less exotic but more lasting struggles for justice," and with $5000 from United Automobile Workers, Hayden's first SDS initiative was the Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP). whose plane had been shot down. As the counterculture rebellion of the 1960s gave way to the stark realities of the 1970s, Hayden decided to enter politics. At the National Student Association convention in Minneapolis in August 1960, Hayden witnessed a dramatic intervention by Sandra Cason. Hayden was often beaten by segregationists and thrown in jail. Not that you don’t sometimes yearn to be young again, but you’ll never see the world the way you did when you were truly young.”. After learning about Chicago Seven member Tom Hayden, take a look at 66 photos from the 1960s. He served as the editor for the school newspaper, and in his farewell column in the newspaper, he used the first letter of successive paragraphs to spell "Go to hell". With the civil rights movement in full swing, Hayden accepted the offer and joined the Freedom Riders in Atlanta. That year, with other SNCC women, Casey Hayden coauthored "Sex and Caste"[9] since regarded as a founding document of second-wave feminism. [8], Tom Hayden was elected SDS president for the 1962–1963 academic year, but his wife Sandra Cason "Casey" Hayden left Ann Arbor, and left him, heeding the call to return to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta. She later recalled that in contrast to the interminable debates she had witnessed in Ann Arbor, in SNCC discussions the focus was on action and women had a voice. [13], President of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Ralph Helstein arranged for Hayden to meet with Saul Alinsky. But only eight of them were hit with federal conspiracy charges. Hayden's 1960s were a decade of dissent marked by civil rights sit-ins, anti-war marches, the Chicago riots and scenes of kids being tear-gassed and clubbed on American campuses. He taught a class at University of California, Los Angeles on protests from Port Huron to the present. Godfrey Hodgson (2016). Undeterred at having been beaten senseless by a white mob in McComb, Mississippi while covering the Freedom Rides for the National Student News,[6] Hayden himself became a Freedom Rider. Dave Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and incitement to riot as part of the "Chicago Eight", a.k.a. [11] SDS community organizers would help draw white neighbourhoods into an "interacial movement of the poor". ‘The Radical Inside The System’: The Story Of Chicago 7 Activist-Turned-Senator Tom Hayden. Undeterred by the weight of the charges, Davis and Rubin audibly called the court “bullsh*t.” Hoffman and Rubin even showed up one day dressed in judicial robes to make a mockery of the courtroom. Hayden taught a class in political science at the University of Southern California during the 1977–78 school year. As a founder of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), he mobilized thousands of young people to speak up against the Vietnam War and demand civil rights for all. [36] In that same year, he helped initiate Progressives for Obama (now called Progressive America Rising), a group of political progressives that provided assistance for Obama in his initial presidential campaign. 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[citation needed], In 2016, Hayden ran to be one of California's representatives to the Democratic National Committee. The ending of The Trial of the Chicago 7 is pure Hollywood. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Hayden in 1976, the year he ran against California Senator John V. Tunney. Now that "The Trial of the Chicago 7" finally has been released, the writer and director told a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Newsmaker audience, it is unsettling to note parallels between what was happening in 1968 … Whatever else one says about Tom Hayden, he practices what he preaches. Soon riots began, primarily in black urban areas. God knows—after the sit-ins, the ban-the-bomb marches, the freedom rides, the draft-card burnings, the campus riots, and Chicago—he's trying. Chicago 1968: glimpses of when the Democrats met amid a summer of unrest ... Tom Hayden and John Froines get lunch during the trial in 1970. Events Leading up the 1968 Convention Riots. Hayden even personally delivered one to the Kennedy White House. Davis and four co-defendants — Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger — were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot during the “Chicago Seven" trial in 1969 and 1970. In 1968, Hayden joined the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam ("the Mobe"), and played a major role in the protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Tom Hayden was long past his heyday of political rebellion and the Chicago 7 trial when he died on Sunday at age 76. But despite the tumultuous trial that followed, Hayden symbolized courage in the face of pressure from the government. He and Fonda later initiated the Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), which formed a close alliance with then Governor Jerry Brown and promoted solar energy, environmental protection and renters' rights policies, as well as candidates for local office throughout California, more than 50 of whom would go on to be elected. In early 1968, the National Mobilization Committee opened a Chicago office directed by Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden, who were leading political organizers at the time and former leaders of Students for a Democratic Society. The future President Richard Nixon won in 1968 — and the Vietnam War was far from over. Soon riots began, primarily in black urban areas. Dellinger, along with Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden, were members of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE). [14], Hayden committed himself to the effort. "[20], In 1968, Hayden joined the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam ("the Mobe"), and played a major role in the protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. December 1 1968 … During January 2008, Hayden wrote an opinion essay for The Huffington Post's website endorsing Barack Obama's presidential bid in the Democratic primaries. : 1–2. "[3], Hayden grew up attending a church led by Charles Coughlin, a Catholic priest noted for his anti-Semitic teachings, and who was also known nationally during the time of The Great Depression as the "radio priest". [35] He served on the advisory board of the Levantine Cultural Center, a nonprofit organization founded in Los Angeles in 2001 that champions cultural literacy about the Middle East and North Africa. Oct. 2, 1969. 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