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Wednesday, October 24, 1990 A
Washington found innocent
English acquit first American president in mock trial
LONDON (UPI) — George
Washington, 215 years after the
alleged crime, faced treason charges
in Britain Thursday for raising an
army against King George III.
In an interview beforp the staged
trial, Washington — portrayed by
William Sommerfield, 60; of
Philadelphia — proclaimed his inno-
cence.
“I’ve come here as an Officer and
a gentleman,” Washington said. “I’ve
come to clear my name.”
The trial, which will raise money
for British law students and deter-
mine transAtlantic bragging rights in
the Anglo-American legal world, pits
Washington against his king over the
legality of the American Revolution,
1775-83.
“I’ve been in conference with my
lawyers,” said Washington. “They’ve
decided that the strategy will be that
the English crown has broken the
contract with the Englishmen who
reside in America.”
American statesmen Benjamin
Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were
expected to speak in defense of the
man known as the “Father of his
Country.”
The trial, conducted in the 700-
year-old Great Hall in Lincoln’s Inn,
was set in 1779, during a lull in the
American War of Independence, as
the victors called it
The defense, led by Chicago
lawyer Mike Coffield, said King
George violated the rights of his
American subjects by taxing them
without representation and requiring
the quartering of British
troops in towns.
“Our theory is we didn’t revolt
against the king. The king forced us
into a position where we had to pro-
tect our rights,” said Coffield.
“We do have odds against us —
the other guy’s turf,” he said.
Nonetheless, Coffield expressed
confidence in his case. The penalty,
for Washington,' is high — he faces
death by hanging at Tower Hill if he
fails to persuade the three judges, a
Briton, a Canadian and an American,
that his cause was just.
“I believe my return tickets are
good,” said Coffield.
Washington is being prosecuted
by Sydney Kentridge, the lawyer
who represented the family of
Steven Biko, who died while
in police custody in South
Africa in 1977.
“I’m up against one of the best,”
Coffield said. “But I think we have
right and justice on our side.”
Sommerfield and the defense wit-
nesses are “historical interpreters”
from the Royal Pickwickians, a
Philadelphia company that recreates
historical events and stages murder
mysteries.
Worthy educational benefits and
lofty principles aside, the trial will
assign bragging rights, lawyers said.
For the British, convicting the
first American president would put
their better-paid American cousins in
their place.
“The English side is keen to pot
George Washington,” said Martyn
Berkin, a London barrister, who
helped organize the event.
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radicals mushroomed into a weekend
meeting of more than 1,000 activists
and leftists — proof, organizers say,
that the ethos of the 1960s is alive
and well.
“It’s true that many of us are a lit-
tle heavier around the middle and
losing hair,” said Lauren Langman,
50, a conference leader. “But we’re
still here.”
“The radical left is still very much
alive,” agreed Carl Davidson, 47, a
former member of Students for a
Democratic Society and a conference
organizer.
“Not all of us could marry Jane
Fonda,” he said, referring to the
actress’ marriage to 1960s radical
Tom Hayden, now active in main-
stream California politics.
A colorful band of political war-
riors — socialists, environmentalists,
feminists and others — registered for
the Midwest Radical Scholars and
Activists Conference, which runs
through Sunday.
When the conference was first
conceived in May, organizers counted
on attracting a small cadre of left-
leaning college intellectuals, said
Langman, a professor of sociology at
Chicago’s Loyola University.
What they got was an enthusiastic
response from hundreds of people,
with conference attendees coming
from as far as New York and
California.
“It’s a small event that just mush-
roomed,” Langman said. “It started
slowly, but we’re being over-
whelmed.”
One reason so many people were
attracted to the event may be that
intellectuals of all disciplines and on-
the-street activists were encouraged
to attend.
“A lot of times that’s like getting
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Davidson, who runs Networking for
Democracy. It uses computer tech-
nology to link various leftist causes.
While academics and activists fre-
quently clash about the ways and
means of radical social change,
Davidson predicted the tension
between the two groups would spark
“a creative mix” at the gathering.
Fists probably won’t fly, Davidson
said, although “there might be some
fruitless debate.”
Organizers said the political cli-
mate is right for the conference,
another reason for its popularity.
The Middle East crisis, the trans-
formation of Eastern Europe’s social-
ist governments, the failing capitalist
economies in Africa and elsewhere
are of great interest to the group,
organizers said.
“This is much more a sponta-
neous explosion of the needs of peo-
ple who arc committed to a certain
politics to ... get together,” said
Danny Postel, a senior philosophy
.major at Beloit College in Beloit,
Wis., who helped organize the event
The conference, organized loosely
around the theme “The Global
Crisis,” includes more than 100 pan-
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and Democracy” and “Organizing for
Mideast Peace.”
Organizers said more than 1,000
people were attending the confer-
ence, further proof the “invisible
left” is alive and well.
“There’s a pretty cruel myth that
the people that were active in the
civil rights movement and anti-war
movement grew up, cut their hair and
became Yuppies,” Langman said.
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Davidson said 1960s radicals, “the
unsung heroes of our generation,”
still live their values, whether in aca-
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