The Carnival of the Courtroom: Public Moral Argument, Antiwar Protest, and the Chicago Eight Trial (original) (raw)

Title of Dissertation: THE CARNIVAL OF THE COURTROOM: PUBLIC MORAL ARGUMENT, ANTI-WAR PROTEST, AND THE CHICAGO EIGHT TRIAL Abbe S. Depretis Doctor of Philosophy, 2017 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Robert N. Gaines Department of Communication In this project, I examined rhetorical activities of the 1969–1970 Chicago Eight Trial, focusing on discourse from the trial itself (e.g., from the eight defendants, the judge, the lawyers, and the court reports) and discourse occurring outside the trial (e.g., newspaper reports) from 1968 to the present. Because the Chicago Eight Trial played an important role in the discussion of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement, I sought to interrogate the rhetorical dimensions of the discourse within the trial, in the media coverage of the trial, and among the participants during the trial. This case was situated within the context of antiwar protests in the United States as well as the transformative context of the 1960s, specifically contesta...

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