Sorkin Inspired By Today’s Protests While Making Chicago 7 Film

Sorkin Inspired By Today’s Protests While Making Chicago 7 Film

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The writer and director behind The West Wing and A Few Good Men talks about his new film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and how today’s protests harken back to the anti-Vietnam war protests of the late 1960’s. And Lee Weiner, one of the actual defendants in the trial, tells us how close the movie came to reality.