Trial witness testimony and trial transcription:
OCR'd with Omnipage 16. OCR is an imperfect technology. Consequently,
the text may still contain errors and irregularities. Original paper transcripts
in Francis Kroncke's file at the Minnesota Historical Society. MNHS
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT
OF MINNESOTA, FIFTH DIVISION
United States of America, Plaintiff, vs. Francis Xavier Kroncke and Michael
Duane Therriault,
Defendants 5-70 Criminal 19
Volume
I - Testimony of Francis X. Kroncke with Closing Argument.
Volume
II - Opening statements
of:
Thorvald Anderson, prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney
Ken Tilsen, lead lawyer
Frank Kroncke, “Minnesota 8” and attorney pro se
Testimonies of:
Raymond Williams, FBI
James E. Bentley, FBI
Charles H. McCullough, FBI
Colonel Robert Knight, Minnesota State Director of Selective
Service System
Volume
III - Testimonies of:
Colonel Robert P. Knight, Minnesota
State Director of Selective Service
Jane
L. Gedde, Little Falls draft board secretary
William G. Lais, FBI Dave
Gutknecht, draft resisters, US Supreme Court case
Gordon S. Neilson, Vietnam Veteran
Robert E. Anderson, Vietnam
Romeyn Taylor, Professor of History,
University of Minnesota
Marv Davidov, nonviolent activists,
founder of Honeywell Project
Volume
IV -Testimonies of:
Professor Arthur H. Westing, ecological report on impact of herbicides
in Viet Nam
Andrew J. Glass, journalist, 80% of injured and killed in Viet
Nam are draftees
Marv Davidov, founder of “The Honeywell Project,”
and long-time non- violent activist and teacher
Daniel Ellsberg, former high ranking government official, who
had “The Pentagon Papers” in his valise
Michael D. Therriault, one of the “Minnesota 8,”
his personal statement encapsulates the arguments of the draft raiders
Volume
V- Testimonies of:
Michael D. Therriault, “Minnesota 8” defendant
Staughton Lynd, Professor of American History, Quaker
Alan Hooper, Professor of Biology, University of Minnesota
Mark Jesenko, lay Roman Catholic Theologian
Al Janicke, former Roman Catholic priest, member of “Milwaukee
14”
Father William Hunt, Roman Catholic Priest, Vatican Council II
peritus
Sentencing
Remarks
Frank Kroncke & Mike Therriault and
Judge Phillip Neville
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