And crimes against the soul / the worst crime I ever did was play some rock-and-roll Dr. Froines found himself drawn into the swirl of antiwar activism building up to the Democratic convention, to be held in August 1968 at Chicago’s International Amphitheater. Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis, two of the protest organizers, knew Dr. Froines through his work in Connecticut with the New Haven chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, and they invited him to join their inner circle. During the convention, tens of thousands of protesters marched in the streets and hundreds were arrested during violent clashes with the Chicago Police Department. But only eight were indicted under federal charges of crossing state lines to incite a riot; they included Mr. Hayden, Mr. Davis and Dr. Froines, who was also charged with building an incendiary device, accused of having shown three women how to make a stink bomb. Several of those charged were already famous as radical activists and counterculture provocateurs. Bobby Seale had co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966; Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, co-founders of the Youth International Party, or the Yippies, were renowned for antics like dropping wads of cash onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange from the visitors gallery. . . " https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/ny_times_john_r_froines/92409996?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,92409996,previd%3D1657945769204536017,nextid%3D1657758402334147561&previd=1657945769204536017&nextid=1657758402334147561 REPOSTS NOT ENDORSEMENTS