John Froines

John R. Froines (born May 31, 1939)[1] is an American chemist and anti-war activist. He is noted as a member of the Chicago Seven,[2] a group charged with involvement with the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Froines, who holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale,[1] was charged with interstate travel for purposes of inciting a riot and with making incendiary devices. He and Lee Weiner were the only two defendants to be acquitted by the jury on both of the counts charged against them[3] and the contempt of court findings, which included those against Froines, by Judge Julius Hoffman were rejected in their entirety after an appeal.[4] According to Gary Libman at The Los Angeles Times, "Froines' courtroom antics were comparatively mild," and included telling jurors that Seale had been sentenced to four years in prison for contempt while the jury was outside the courtroom.[4]

While still waiting for acquittal in the early 1970s, Froines was on the faculty at Goddard College in Vermont, where he taught chemistry.[5][6] In January 1990, it was reported that Froines had been named director of UCLA’s Occupational Health Center. He later served as the Director of Toxic Substances at the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration as well.[4] Froines also served as chair of the California Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants for nearly 30 years before resigning in 2013 amid claims that he conducted independent research with the panel while maintaining ties to other scientists who disapproved of the chemicals he was evaluating, creating a conflict of interest.[7][8] He retired in 2011[9] from the UCLA School of Public Health, in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.[3] Following the passing of Rennie Davis in 2021, Froines and Weiner are the last living members of the Chicago Seven.

References
  1. Donald M.. Bain (1969). "Froines, John R." International Chemistry Directory, 1969-70. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  2. Alan M. Dershowitz (14 May 2004). The Trial of the Chicago Seven. America on Trial. ISBN 9780759511033. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  3. "John Froines". University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law. Archived from the original on December 11, 2010. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  4. Libman, Gary (January 30, 1990). "'60s Radical Puts Past Behind Him". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  5. B. Bruce-Briggs (1979). The New Class?. ISBN 9781412829557. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  6. US Government hires 'Chicago Seven' Radical. 16 February 1978. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  7. Schallert, Amanda (15 July 2013). "UCLA professor resigns from air quality panel". University of California, Los Angeles Daily Bruin. Los Angeles. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  8. Schallert, Amanda (27 September 2013). "State senators accuse UCLA of withholding professor's records". University of California, Los Angeles Daily Bruin. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  9. "Letter" (PDF). scientificintegrityinstitute.org.

Further reading
  • Edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee and Daniel Greenberg / Foreword by Aaron Sorkin. The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. ISBN 978-1-9821-5509-4. OCLC 1162494002
  • Edited with an introduction by Jon Wiener. Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven. Afterword by Tom Hayden and drawings by Jules Feiffer. New York: The New Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-56584-833-7
  • Edited by Judy Clavir and John Spitzer. The Conspiracy Trial: The extended edited transcript of the trial of the Chicago Eight. Complete with motions, rulings, contempt citations, sentences and photographs. Introduction by William Kunstler and foreword by Leonard Weinglass. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970. ISBN 0-224-00579-0. OCLC 16214206
  • Schultz, John. The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven. Foreword by Carl Oglesby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. ISBN 9780226760742. (Originally published in 1972 as Motion Will Be Denied.)


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