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Great trials of out time.
John Froines, along with Lee Weiner, were the two forgotten defendants at
the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Not individually charged with inciting a
riot, but rather with making incendiary devices (stink bombs), Froines and
Weiner were acquitted by the jury.
Froines came to Chicago as a chemist of considerable distinction, having
graduated from Berkeley in 1963, then receiving his Ph.D. with a
specialization in toxicology and industrial hygiene from Yale in 1967.
Froines activism dates at least back to 1964, when he was chair of Students
for Johnson at Yale. He soon thereafter joined the S.D.S.. Later he founded
the Radical Science Information Service.
At trial, Froines appeared to many observers to be a quiet, likable man
with a well developed sense of ironic wit. In his statement made at the
time of sentencing on contempt convictions, Froines quoted the Oregon
Constitution which spoke of the right of the people to "at all times alter,
reform or abolish the government in a manner as they may think proper."