Word: spock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system is the present Greek government, and the adventure is the extrapolation of an incident in Athens, circa 1963. A Spock-like physician-politician (Yves Montand) addresses an antimilitary rally. As he leaves the assembly hall, he is viciously clubbed by hired assassins as a truck simultaneously brushes past him. Three days later, without regaining consciousness, he dies. Officials immediately offer smug condolences about the "regrettable traffic accident." But a few bits of offal stick to the whitewash. A journalist coaxes a witness into a confession; an alibi springs an irreparable leak. The incorruptible public prosecutor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) remains...
...halt to the trial of the Chicago Eight. The principal speaker at the rally was Dr. Benjamin Spock...
Following Spock's speech, the protestors marched to the 10th street entrance of the Justice Department building. A delegation of lawyers who wanted to present a statement to Attorney General John Mitchell, asking him to end the trial, was denied entrance...
...Spock and the other speakers questioned the constitutionality of the anti-riot law which the defendants have been indicted for violating. The law forbids crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot. The speakers said the law violates people's right to free speech and free thought...
...only going to ask Judge Luric to reduce bond to $1000 cash," said Homans, who defended former Harvard graduate student Michael Ferber in the "Spock Trials" last year. "But when I saw which way the judge was thinking, I decided to ask for no bail...