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Australian TV

Here come the judge

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Written & directed by Aaron Sorkin, 130 minutes, Netflix

1968 was a year of recurring turbulence for the United States, all of it witnessed in American living rooms, courtesy of television.

Republican intellectual, George F. Will, notes that America was rocked by the Tet offensive in Vietnam early that year to be followed by the assassinations of Dr Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F.

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Stephen Loosley is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

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