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Over the course of more than six months the grand jury met 30 times and heard some 200 witnesses.

However, President Lyndon Johnson's Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, discouraged an indictment, believing that the violence during the convention was primarily caused by actions of the Chicago police.

The grand jury returned indictments only after President Richard Nixon took office and John Mitchell assumed the office of Attorney General.

On March 20, 1969, eight protesters were charged with various crimes and eight police officers were charged with civil rights violations.