At the start of the trial, Bobby Seale claims that the eight defendants are called the "Chicago Seven". In reality, they were originally called the "Chicago Eight". The defendants became known as the Chicago Seven after Seale was severed from the case.
At the protest concert before the riots, women are shown burning their bras.
This never happened. Men burned their draft cards and women threw their bras in the trash. A journalist named Jon Katz incorrectly reported the bra-burning and the image has stuck in the memory of Americans ever since.
In the movie there was a special female agent Daphne O'Connor from FBI who tried to infiltrate to rioters. The film takes place on events 1968 Chicago , where the FBI director was J. Edgar Hoover. Under Hoover administration, there was no female agents in the FBI from 1930 until his death 1972.
While arguing with Abbie, Tom Hayden claims he was one of Bobby Kennedy's pallbearers. In reality they were RFK Jr. John Glenn, Douglas Dillon, LeMoyne Billings, Lord Harlech, James Whittaker, Steven Smith, David Hackett' Robert S. McNamara and Rafer Johnson.
One of the characters says the reason that he was not drafted was that he had a high lottery number. That is impossible as the lottery started after the trial began.
Also, the draft lottery which was shown in the picture had nothing to protests in Chicago because the lottery was a year later.
Also, the draft lottery which was shown in the picture had nothing to protests in Chicago because the lottery was a year later.
During the bridge scene the logo for the Conrad Chicago can be seen behind the police. Conrad debuted their first hotel almost twenty years after the timing of the movie.
The address of the "conspiracy office" (38:33) is given as "We are in Hyde Park. 28 East Jackson Street, Chicago, IL, 60604." That address is in the Loop (downtown), some 6 miles north of the nearest corner of the Hyde Park neighborhood.
When Abbie Hoffman is on the stand, he references carrying ideas on their journey from "New York to New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Ohio and into Illinois". Ohio and Illinois are not bordering states. It's likely that Hoffman mistakenly omitted Indiana.
In this film, Lee Weiner has neat, short hair and is clean shaven. In real life, during the trial, Weiner had long, unruly hair and a bushy beard.