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74 ko eee a 4 ae ae oN! Ml a tates act ot “Tt 4 NY 100-161445 - — CONFIDENTIAL The “Saint Louis Globe Democrat", Saint Louis, Missouri, daily newspaper, in its December 1, 1969, issue contained an article entitled, "“FROINES Labels Chicago Case a 'trial of '60S'", which stated in part as follows: “JOHN R, FROINES, one of eight men on trial in Chicago on charges of inciting to riot during the Democratic National Convention last year, told an audience of Saint Louis University students Sunday night that thé trial is a ‘trial of the sixties’, { “PROINES, speaking with fellow defendant aBBIE HOFFMAN, told a crowd of 750 at the university gymnasium that the past 10 years are on trial and we're representative of those 10 years. ‘*aCTUALLY, everyone in this room (the gymnasium) is on trial, not just eight men,' FROINES added. “HOFFMAN opened his address by raising his shirt tails to scratch his bare stomach with both hands. He then spent a half-hour satirizing the trial proceedings, spicing his remarks with loud exclamations and occasional four-letter words. “For their addresses, FROINES and HOFFMAN were to receive $1,000, said STEVE CARTER, an SLU student who helped bring the pair to the campus through the university's Community for Peace organization, The fee was to be paid out of student and faculty members! personal pledges and’ admission profits. admission was $1." ~ 19 -— CONFIRENTIAL