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Francis X. Kroncke, one of the "Minnesota 8," raided Selective Service draft boards in 1970. Initially indicted on "sabotage of the national defense," he was ...
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5 Introduction My life on trial “As to Francis X. Kroncke, I sentence you to a maximum of five years imprisonment. Your time to be served in a federal penitentiary ...
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This is the biography page for Francis Kroncke. Francis X. Kroncke, federal inmate 8867-147, is a seeker whose has journeyed through the monastic life, the ...
Feb 21, 2008 - During subsequent trials, they were dubbed “The Minnesota 8” and their defenses centered on their opposition to the Vietnam War and the use ...
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TERROR ALERT: 1970 The Strange Summer of Bomb Threats in Minnesota © 2017 by JEFF R. LONTO The conservatives did it. False Flag conspiracy theory russian style fingers of blame were pointing in all directions, Tribune, from August 28, 1970. Francis X. Kroncke, spokesman for the Minnesota 8, a group of students charged with attempted sabotage in raids on three draft offices, challenged the notion by the “police and press” that so-called student radicals were responsible for bomb threats, at a news conference. “We would like to suggest that the bombings might be acts of right-wing elements or paramilitary groups,” he charged, saying that those groups might be attempting to discredit radicals in much the same manner as “bosses supported bombings and other acts of terrorism to discredit unions in their early history,” according to the newspaper article. He said conservative groups “readily accept the 50,000 dead Americans in Vietnam, and a few dead citizens for the sake of publicity against the radical community is not above their sense of brutality.” He conceded that some members of the militant left might be responsible for some of the bombings but if they were, they were driven to it “after years of non-violent protest.”
Minnesota 8 "Peace and War in the Heartland"
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The Minnesota 8 was one part of a larger group, called "The Minnesota Conspiracy to Save ... It relates the key events and includes trial testimony, dates, etc.
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Trial documents of the Minnesota 8 anti-war draft board raiders during the Vietnam War era, 1970.
Minnesota 8 was one part of a larger group, called "The Minnesota Conspiracy to Save Lives," whose members raided Selective Service draft boards in various non-urban areas of Minnesota on July 10, 1970. The FBI arrested eight men in three draft boards - at Alexandria, Little Falls and Winona. One other draft raid was successfully conducted that evening, and one was aborted due to a newly installed alarm system. No one from the successful raid, which included a woman, was ever arrested. Three trials were held from November 2, 1970 through January 18, 1971 in the Minnesota federal district courts in Minneapolis and St. Paul. One of the 8 pleaded guilty, and he received probation. The other seven received the maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.
Outlaw or American Patriot? is based upon a post-trial/pre-prison memoir written by Frank Kroncke. It relates the key events and includes trial testimony, dates, etc. Other materials are available at the Minnesota Historical Society. Go to http://mnhs.mnpals.net (search "Author" enter "Kroncke F").
To grasp the tenor and temper of the times, the 8 were arrested on the charge, "Sabotage of the National Defense." This carried a ten year sentence. Bail was set at $50,000.00 each. This despite the fact that they were all first-time offenders, and arrested for an ostensible act of nonviolent civil disobedience. They sweated out a hot July week in Hennepin County until the bail was reduced to $10,000.00 apiece.
The 8 were indicted on "interfering with the Selective Service System by force, violence or otherwise." They were convicted of an act of violence, and they received the maximum sentence of five years. All mention of the Vietnam War and any tradition or principles of morality were judged "irrelevant and immaterial." One Judge stated, "You gentlemen are worse that the common criminal who attacks the taxpayer's pocketbook. You strike at the foundation of government, itself."
Outlaw or American Patriot? is based upon a post-trial/pre-prison memoir written by Frank Kroncke. It relates the key events and includes trial testimony, dates, etc. Other materials are available at the Minnesota Historical Society. Go to http://mnhs.mnpals.net (search "Author" enter "Kroncke F").
To grasp the tenor and temper of the times, the 8 were arrested on the charge, "Sabotage of the National Defense." This carried a ten year sentence. Bail was set at $50,000.00 each. This despite the fact that they were all first-time offenders, and arrested for an ostensible act of nonviolent civil disobedience. They sweated out a hot July week in Hennepin County until the bail was reduced to $10,000.00 apiece.
The 8 were indicted on "interfering with the Selective Service System by force, violence or otherwise." They were convicted of an act of violence, and they received the maximum sentence of five years. All mention of the Vietnam War and any tradition or principles of morality were judged "irrelevant and immaterial." One Judge stated, "You gentlemen are worse that the common criminal who attacks the taxpayer's pocketbook. You strike at the foundation of government, itself."
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