Weatherman Member List
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Weatherman/Weather Underground was a radical leftist organization founded in 1969 and active through 1973. The following is a list of some of the members of Weatherman.
Members
- Karen AshleyKaren AshleyKaren Ashley is a former member of Students for a Democratic Society and The Weatherman .-SDS:In February 1968, Karen Ashley and Mark Rudd along with eighteen other SDS members traveled to Cuba as guests of the Cuban government...
- Bill AyersBill AyersWilliam Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction...
- Kit BakkeKit BakkeChristopher Lynn "Kit" Bakke is an U.S. activist. In the 1960s, she actively fought for women's rights and civil rights and she protested the Vietnam War. In college, she helped to establish a new chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society . Later, she became a member of the Weathermen,...
- Silas BissellSilas BissellSilas Bissell joined The Weatherman movement for a brief time before going underground after planting a bomb at the University of Washington's ROTC building. Bissell was arrested after 17 years of being underground and served 18 months in jail.- Early life :Silas Trim Bissell was born April 27, 1942...
- Kathy BoudinKathy BoudinKathy Boudin is a former American radical who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder for her participation in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of three people. She later became a public health expert while in prison...
- Scott BraleyScott BraleyScott Braley was a leftist activist and a regional organizer for the Michigan State University's chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society, better known as SDS. Braley became a member of Weatherman in 1969 and remained so until the group disbanded in 1977...
- Judith Clark
- Dianne DonghiDianne DonghiDianne Marie Donghi is a former member of Students for a Democratic Society and Weatherman .-SDS:...
- Bernardine DohrnBernardine DohrnBernardine Rae Dohrn is a former leader of the American anti-Vietnam War radical organization, Weather Underground. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center...
- Linda Sue Evans
- Brian FlanaganBrian FlanaganBrian Flanagan is a former member of the American radical left organizations Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground Organization .-Early life:...
- David Gilbert
- Ted GoldTed GoldTheodore "Ted" Gold was a member of Weatherman.-Early years and education:Gold was a red diaper baby. He was the son of Hyman Gold, a prominent Jewish physician and a mathematics instructor at Columbia University who had both been part of the Old Left. His mother was a statistician who taught at...
- Phoebe HirschPhoebe HirschPhoebe Hirsch is a former member of Students for a Democratic Society and Weatherman .-Early Education and Activism:...
- John JacobsJohn Jacobs (student leader)John Gregory Jacobs was an American student and anti-war activist in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was a leader in both Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman group, and an advocate of the use of violent force to overthrow the government of the United States...
- Naomi JaffeNaomi JaffeNaomi Esther Jaffe is a former undergraduate student of Herbert Marcuse and member of the Weather Underground Organization. Jaffe was recently the Executive Director of Holding Our Own, a multiracial foundation for women.-Early life:...
- Jeff Jones (activist)Jeff Jones (activist)Jeff Jones is an environmental activist and consultant in Upstate New York. He was a national officer in Students for a Democratic Society, a founding member of Weatherman, and a leader of the Weather Underground....
- Michael JustesenMichael JustesenMichael Justesen is a former member of Students for a Democratic Society , the Seattle Liberation Front and Weather Underground Organization .-Early education and activism:...
- Nancy KurshanNancy KurshanNancy Kurshan was born in Brooklyn, NY on February 4, 1944, was raised as a “red diaper baby” and is best known for being a founder of the Youth International Party . She was a participant in the civil rights and peace movements as far back as high school...
- Howard MachtingerHoward MachtingerHoward Norton Machtinger is a former director of Carolina Teaching Fellows, a student teacher scholarship program at the University of North Carolina. He is an education and civil rights activist, a teacher, a forum leader, and a political commentator...
- Mark D. NaisonMark D. NaisonMark Naison is a professor of history at Fordham University in New York, and a former political activist who was a member of CORE and SDS in the 1960s. He is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a Ph. D. in American History.-Early life:...
- Diana OughtonDiana OughtonDiana Oughton was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weatherman. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. After graduation, Oughton went to Guatemala with the VISA program to teach the young and older...
- Mark PerryMark PerryMark Perry may refer to:* Mark Perry , college wrestler at the University of Iowa* Mark Perry , American author* Mark Perry , professor at the University of Michigan...
- Eleanor RaskinEleanor RaskinEleanor E. Raskin née Stein; was a member of Weatherman. She is currently an associate professor at Albany Law School, teaching transnational environmental law with a focus on catastrophic climate change.- Early life :Eleanor E...
- Terry RobbinsTerry RobbinsTerry Robbins was a U.S. leftist radical activist. A key member of the Students for a Democratic Society Ohio chapter, he led Kent State into its first militant student uprising in 1968. Robbins was credited for drawing inspiration from Bob Dylan’s song Subterranean Homesick Blues which later...
- Robert Roth
- Mark RuddMark RuddMark William Rudd is a political organizer, mathematics instructor, and anti-war activist, most well known for his involvement with the Weather Underground. Rudd became a member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963. By 1968, he had emerged as a leader...
- Ziesel Saunders
- Michael "Mike" Spiegel
- Robert "Robby" SternRobert "Robby" SternRobert Fred Stern, a graduate of the University of Washington's Law program was involved as a leader of SDS and other new left activist organizations in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was first married to Susan Stern whom he met at Syracuse University and later married his current wife, Dina...
- Susan SternSusan SternSusan Ellen Stern was an American political activist.She was a member of the prominent anti-Vietnam War groups Students for a Democratic Society , Weatherman and the Seattle Liberation Front ....
- Laura WhitehornLaura WhitehornLaura Jane Whitehorn was born in April 1945 to Lenore and Nathaniel Whitehorn of Brooklyn, New York. As a college student in the 1960s, she organized and participated in civil rights and anti-war movements. as well as involvement in a series of revolutionary bombings and armed robberies...
- Cathy Wilkerson