Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Association

Microfilm LB 3610 .F35 | FBI File

[Calpernia]

Scope: Covering the years1962-1977, this file provides descriptions of anti-war rallies and materials produced by the Students for a Democratic Society. It also has detailed information on the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, a "defining moment" of the SDS. "The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a progressive, radical reformist student group, grew from the ranks of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), whose own student group, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) had become all but defunct by the end of the 1950s. . .Under new Field Secretary Robert Alan Haber, University of Michigan graduate student, SDS established a national office in New York and began to organize itself as a fringe political group within American academe by the end of the 1961-62 school year." "SDS had been monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as early as 1962, but SDS involvement in the April 1965 Student March on Washington against the Vietnam War caught the Johnson administration off guard and the order to monitor SDS activities followed swiftly. The Bureau investigation centered in Chicago, where SDS had established its national office at 1103 E. 63rd Street, in the heart of the ghetto." "The FBI could find no hard evidence of outside influence or control of SDS, even though many of its leaders were espousing the radical thinking of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Che Guevara. Because SDS had none of the traditional hall marks of foreign control or influence, they were classified as part of what became known as the 'New Left.'" From the Introduction of the Guide to the collection

This collection also includes information on the Weatherman Underground Organization, a faction that came out of the SDS and was of interest to the FBI. The guide to the collection also provides some information on this group.

Subject Categories: To find more information on this topic in our library, search under these subject headings in the WebCat:

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) -- History

Weatherman (Organization)

Student movements -- United States

Student movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources

[PhilDragoo]

What does it say about the "educational system" and the "media" that the last three presidential candidates (Clinton being the first, and only successful) have been such flaming ComSymps?

Perhaps it says it's past time to go Putin on the NEA and media.

[Fedora]

Now I'm wondering if Al Gore supported Nuclear Freeze in his early Senate years.

[nopardons]

What does it say about supposed Conservative parents,who don't teach this history to their kids?

When I was growing up,my mother force-fed me anticommunist facts.You better believe that I force-fed my daughter those and stories about the stinking American subversives too.

What does it say about FR,that only a rather small group of us ever post to these threads and WE already know most,if not ALL of the info?

If we don't get these facts out........NOBODY shall.

[Fedora]

What years was your mother with SANE?

Here's a good resource on SANE's relation to the Nuclear Freeze Movement and the current antiwar movement:

Peace Action (formerly SANE/FREEZE) Records, 1986-current

[dennisw]

What years was your mother with SANE?.....


During "nuclear testing". Late 50s, early 60s. Main selling point was our milk being contaminated with Strontium 90.

[dennisw]

I always knew them as SANE. My guess is Freeze glommed onto old SANE mailing lists to get up and running. Freeze came in the early 80s and was trying to stop us from basing nuclear missiles in Europe. Am I right about this?

[Fedora]

"Main selling point was our milk being contaminated with Strontium 90."

Wasn't another selling point about the dangers of cobalt bombs or something like that? Kind of a prototype for the Freeze emphasis on the risks of "nuclear winter".

[Fedora]

Freeze was supported by a lot of former Mobe and Moratorium activists with local/state grassroots organizations, so I'd guess they picked up their mailing lists in the process. They were formally distinct from SANE but they joined forces.

Heading towards bed soon here, so have a good one!

[dennisw]

Wasn't another selling point about the dangers of cobalt bombs or something like that?......

Yes but not as much. Cobalt jacket on a nuke meaning much more fallout. I don't remember if we threatened to use cobalt bombs or the Russians did, or if it was just a lot of hype by SANE.

[MeekOneGOP]

1968; Students for a Democratic Society; silkscreen on paper; 17 x 22 inches

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16/come_to_detroit.html

[FreedomPoster]

Just a side note on Post #2 - Rummel puts the number of dead in Cambodia at 2 millions, not one.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

Rummel's Democide pages, at the link above, are a resource every conservative should be aware of. This is where the rubber meets the road on the lies of state socialism.

Good thread.

[calcowgirl]

Look at Ramparts magazine in the'60's. Ramparts exposed the NSA/CIA connection. I'm not sure of the date - 1966-67 or so.

It was before August 1967. Because it was mentioned in a Barron's article at that time regarding the National Conference on New Politics":

"Among the members of the National Conference for New Politics national council and executive board are: Paul Albert, California Democratic Council; Donna Allen, Women Strike for Peace; Julian Bond, Georgian State Legislature; Paul Booth, national council, Students for a Democratic Society; Reverend William Sloan Coffin, Jr., chaplain, Yale University; Victoria Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Dick Gregory, actor; Martin Peretz, Committee on Social Studies, Harvard University; Robert Scheer, publisher, Ramparts magazine; Monroe Wasch, American Federation State, County & Municipal Employees; Henry Wineberg, Committee for Independent Political Action, Chicago; and Michael Wood, former member of the National Student Association who leaked to Ramparts information about the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency".

Not sure if I've seen Michael Wood before. We've seen most of the others mentioned often. Robert Scheer is now a columnist with the Los Angeles Times. Martin Peretz is currently involved in various investments in Colorado with Sam Brown (Action/VISTA).

[calcowgirl]

For Reference, The Port Huron Statement was the founding "manifesto" of SDS:

Michigan State University
THE PORT HURON STATEMENT OF THE STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

The Nation
July 18, 2002
The Port Huron Statement at 40
by TOM HAYDEN & DICK FLACKS
[from the August 5, 2002 issue]

[calcowgirl]

SDS Officers

Source: Students for a Democratic Society papers, 1958-1970 : a guide to the microfilm edition of the original records in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin*

1960-62
President, Al Haber
Vice President, Jonathan Weiss
Field Secretary, Al Haber (60-62)
Field Secretary, Tom Hayden (61-62)

1962-63
President, Tom Hayden
Vice President, Paul Booth
National Secretary, Jim Monsonis
Field Secretary, Steve Max

1963-64
President: Todd Gitlin
Vice President: Paul Booth
National Secretary: Lee Webb/Clark Kissinger
Field Secretary: Steve Max

1964-65
President: Paul Potter
Vice President: Vernon Grizzard
National Secretary: Clark Kissinger

1965-66
President: Carl Oglesby
Vice President: Jeff Shero
National Secretary: Jeff Segal: Clark Kissinger, Paul Booth, Jane Adams

1966-67
President: Nick Egleson
Vice President: Carl Davidson
National Secretary: Greg Calvert

1967-68
National Secretary: Mike Spiegel
Educational Secretary: Bob Pardun
Inter-Organizational Secretary: Carl Davidson

1968-69
National Secretary: Mike Klonsky
Educational Secretary: Fred Gordon
Inter-organizational Secretary: Bernardine Dohrn

1969-70
National Secretary: Mark Rudd
Educational Secretary: Bill Ayers
Inter-organizational Secretary: Jeff Jones

1969-70 Boston
National Secretary: John Pennington
Educational Secretary: Alan Spector
Inter-organizational Secretary: Patricia Forman


*Title(s) Students for a Democratic Society papers, 1958-1970 : a guide to the microfilm edition of the original records in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Publisher Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1977.
Paging v, 82 p. ; 28 cm.
Subject Headings
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
- Students United States Political activity.
Other Entries
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
- Microfilming Corporation of America.

[calcowgirl]

I just noticed Jonathan Weiss on this.
Possible relation to Peter?

[Calpernia]

>>>>What does it say about FR,that only a rather small group of us ever post to these threads and WE already know most,if not ALL of the info?

I don't know these things! This is why you see me making all these long threads nopardons. This is me reading on these subjects for the first time. Please post to these threads when I ping you.

:)

[Calpernia]

>>>Clark Kissinger

I've seen information before that implied he was related to Kissinger.

Then I've seen stern rebuttles that they are not.

Do you know more?

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the history lesson of the Anti America New Lefties since the Nam years. Below is the picture of the well tutored Kerry lying at the Fulbright hearing on Nam:

Kerry's lies in the past have killed millions of innocents!

Kerry Lied

Millions Died

[Calpernia]

What are those killing fields of Grampa?

[Grampa Dave]

Cambodia.

Calpernia, thanks for posting this thread.

Apparently, you have some excellent indexing of the roots of the current Rat Party.

After we "Mondale" Kerry so hard with our votes today, it is past time to educate America on the anti America base of the current elites who control the Rat party and MSM.