I know nothing of this insanity as I missed it, born in ‘68, and it certainly wasn’t in the history books.
Took over buildings? Brought guns?
Looks like I missed a lot of action.
I missed it pretty much while it was happening, but later met people who had taken part. Two roommates at the Business School who had a cat named Che. But I still didn’t know the whole story till I read Rudd’s book.
A coworker of mine was SDS and took part in the Days of Rage.
I was still apolitical in those days although I went to a Vietnam moratorium demonstration in Washington, mostly just to go on the jaunt with friends. Almost everyone I knew was Dem or more leftist than that. I just stayed out of it till the early nineties.