"There are several hundred members of the Weatherman underground and some of us face more years in jail than the fifty thousand deserters and draft dodgers now in Canada. Already many of them are coming back to join us in the underground or to return to the Man's army and tear it up from inside along with those who never left" - Bernadine Dohrn in her Declaration of a State of War.
"Charismatic and articulate, they employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle, black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."
Weatherman leaders:
Bernadine Dohrn - a leader of the Weatherman group, author of "A Declaration of a state of War."
She is currently working in President Obama's administration as a Clinical Associate Professor of Law. She has dinner with President Obama once a month. She was also on the FBI's Most Wanted list for over two years and they spent around a million dollars hunting her. "A Federal judge has freed Bernardine Dohrn, who was jailed seven months ago [in May of 1982] for refusing to cooperate with a Federal grand jury investigating the 1981 Brink's armored-car robbery in Rockland County. "
Diana Oughton - built the bomb that exploded prematurely on March 6, 1970 at the New York Townhouse explosion. She was killed instantly.
Terry Robbins - lead the Kent State rebellion and was killed alongside Diana building the bomb.
Ted Gold - killed in Greenwich village from the bomb built by Terry and Diana. ''I was regretful over about 5 percent of what we did,'' he said. ''I think 95 percent of what we did was great, and we'd do it again.'' And what was the 5 percent? The town house, Mr. Flanagan said. When pressed, he said he regretted both the deaths of the three Weathermen -- Ted Gold,
Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson- injured in the Townhouse explosion, but escaped from the police.
Linda S. Evans was granted clemency by President Bill Clinton for convictions related to bombings and released from prison in 2001 after serving nearly 16 years. According to the New York times, she said "I just feel really strongly that the policies of our government are just anti-human at every level.''
"Miss Boudin were Judith Clark, 32, James Lester Hackford, 32, and Samuel Brown, 41, all of New York and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two policemen and a guard during the Brink's armed robbery in 1981 where they also stole 1.6 million dollars from a van."
Quotes from other members:
Al Haber (SDS President 1960-62), "Agenda for a Generation," Venture, an SDS publication, Fall 1960:
"[Early student radicalism] lacks...faith in the political process...but it offers no alternative beyond direct action....It does, however, have the appeal, publicity value, manpower, and organizational resources to serve as a foundation for a movement of more fundamental protest and more positive radical direction."
Todd Gitlin (SDS President 1963-4), The Battlefields of War, April 1964
"One of the diabolical successes of this organized society is that it perverts people’s notions about themselves into fantasies that perpetuate an unjust system. This is…particularly true about the poor, the unemployed, the Negroes."
Carl Oglesby, in Liberation, 1969
"The United States is to experience not a social revolution at the hands of its own people, but a military defeat at the hands of twenty, thirty, many Vietnams — plus a few Detroits.”
"Charismatic and articulate, they employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle, black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."
Weatherman leaders:
Bernadine Dohrn - a leader of the Weatherman group, author of "A Declaration of a state of War."
She is currently working in President Obama's administration as a Clinical Associate Professor of Law. She has dinner with President Obama once a month. She was also on the FBI's Most Wanted list for over two years and they spent around a million dollars hunting her. "A Federal judge has freed Bernardine Dohrn, who was jailed seven months ago [in May of 1982] for refusing to cooperate with a Federal grand jury investigating the 1981 Brink's armored-car robbery in Rockland County. "
Diana Oughton - built the bomb that exploded prematurely on March 6, 1970 at the New York Townhouse explosion. She was killed instantly.
Terry Robbins - lead the Kent State rebellion and was killed alongside Diana building the bomb.
Ted Gold - killed in Greenwich village from the bomb built by Terry and Diana. ''I was regretful over about 5 percent of what we did,'' he said. ''I think 95 percent of what we did was great, and we'd do it again.'' And what was the 5 percent? The town house, Mr. Flanagan said. When pressed, he said he regretted both the deaths of the three Weathermen -- Ted Gold,
Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson- injured in the Townhouse explosion, but escaped from the police.
Linda S. Evans was granted clemency by President Bill Clinton for convictions related to bombings and released from prison in 2001 after serving nearly 16 years. According to the New York times, she said "I just feel really strongly that the policies of our government are just anti-human at every level.''
"Miss Boudin were Judith Clark, 32, James Lester Hackford, 32, and Samuel Brown, 41, all of New York and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two policemen and a guard during the Brink's armed robbery in 1981 where they also stole 1.6 million dollars from a van."
Quotes from other members:
Al Haber (SDS President 1960-62), "Agenda for a Generation," Venture, an SDS publication, Fall 1960:
"[Early student radicalism] lacks...faith in the political process...but it offers no alternative beyond direct action....It does, however, have the appeal, publicity value, manpower, and organizational resources to serve as a foundation for a movement of more fundamental protest and more positive radical direction."
Todd Gitlin (SDS President 1963-4), The Battlefields of War, April 1964
"One of the diabolical successes of this organized society is that it perverts people’s notions about themselves into fantasies that perpetuate an unjust system. This is…particularly true about the poor, the unemployed, the Negroes."
Carl Oglesby, in Liberation, 1969
"The United States is to experience not a social revolution at the hands of its own people, but a military defeat at the hands of twenty, thirty, many Vietnams — plus a few Detroits.”