Brian Flanagan

Released
Date of birth:20. 10. 1946
Age:80
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:Illinois
Support
Anti-Imperialism Anti-War Weather Underground Students for a Democratic Society
Brian Flanagan

Biography

Weather Underground / SDS member tried for attempted murder of Chicago city attorney Richard Elrod during the October 1969 Days of Rage — when Weather collective members ran through downtown Chicago smashing cars and shop windows in protest of the war and the Chicago 8 trial. Acquitted at trial. Later notable for being one of the highest-earning Jeopardy! champions in the show's history.

Photo credit

Brian Flanagan at his New York tavern. Photograph by Peter Ross, published in Chicago magazine's Sudden Impact, December 2006 issue (online June 20, 2007). Cropped from the original published photograph; no AI editing.

Case

Charges: Attempted murder of Chicago city attorney Richard Elrod (Days of Rage, October 11, 1969).
Arrested: Oct 11, 1969
Incarcerated: Oct 11, 1969
Sentence: Acquitted of all charges in August 1970; no sentence imposed.
Convicted: No

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