Challenging the culture of congress. A former correspondent she has appeared in bogan Harpers Bazaar and other publications in produce the 2011 documentary the Last Mountain before she speaks we will have a teaser trailer and we will watch that right now the spee1. Double talk to a subject of deep concern want the war of vietnam. I will like to answer some of the questions that i know me. We were 22 years old rework kids people want the who, and activism in the Civilrights Movement and the Womens Movement so all of the ferment was happening the culmination of the word black shocked the nation and our people went nuts. Pdf. You keep saying that. Even though i was incarcerated at the time i knew immediately to die at the hands of Police Officers with the guns and. But we identified batboy. I was convinced but how ridiculous would that be back until i saw the ground in front of me turned up and realize they were shot at that point bobby. 67 bullets at the unarmed students by eight sister was 343 feet away from her shooters from the Environmental Movement or alternative health movement. These are longterm pressures that our transformative than they were more powerful. Been on. Hello baying queue for coming me and for be been here there are so few independent bookstores left i am happy to come to one that is this big can fibrin so i am thrilled to be here want to give a shot out to a random house colleague boom is the lawyer for a this book been so im glad she is here but this video the voices that you heard were from taperecorded interviews that i conducted with 100 different people their only a few in the video but over the course of the three years over the different parts of the movement for social change in the late 60s all of them lived in america laugh off last laugh i decided that night was born in 1963 i grew up in Central Park West in my playground was a staging ground but i was not completely aware of the significance. Meyer early hometown heroes and i had photos of them on my wall and i was the on feminist at the age of seven but this was a theater to me when i graduated that was 15 years after the largest student strike in america that you just saw the statistics to. 5 Million Students went on strike with the invasion of cambodia and yet i graduated 15 years later to the middle of the reagan administration. Ill be with us went to battle against apartheid but otherwise it was very quiet all my friends went to work on wall street i knew my life was different because of what had been in the 60s fica with any life that i wanted but i wanted to know what it was about this revolution in the late 60s that ive missed and how that activism awaken in a generation changed my generation and those to follow. I thought it was a good time to go back with history you are allowed to go back every decade to revisit the even if it has been written about enormously the library that i collected in my research was fast. I did feel like he was old cheeky for me to decide by could take this on as a kid who was not even there but it seemed like the right time to revisit to talk to people who were activists because many were in the late 60s and 70s and ready to reflect and so much had gone on in that there was a lot to talk about a one to to catch them not a time when they still remember what they had done and wanted to reflect. I set about traveling around the country i decided to focus on the school year 1969 and 1970 august through august which i consider to be the august crescendo and climax i recreate the oral history narrative fall in first person woven together i recreate those big defense through personal stories of the people that i talked to. Profit was a moving experience, the twotime me what happened baird remembered everything that was so traumatic by filing stating memories that was not the case and everyone was traumatized whether they came back or were fighting against the war on the streets or even the Counter Culture or the feminist movement everyone had done things they felt were extremely important and they committed their lives in a way that no one in my generation had ever done so it was exciting to revisit all of that with them. , august 69 was woodstock and i looked at woodstock through the eyes of david harris at the time was in jail and his wife was pregnant with his child singing onstage telling everyone the 500,000 people that appeared a Perfect Store rebellion took place with a the political side of the revolution working all are in in arm and the Counter Culture taking place and that had a profound impact on peoples attitude toward the establishment by the end of the 60s a Massive Movement of student uprising and i conclude as many people that i interviewed that lsd played a part in that to some extent and marijuana. I said in the book lsd is widely in the late 60s was the secret ingredient that helped to. The transformation and attitude and lifestyle to challenge every principle of society and culture in the 50s called a revolution or psychedelic revolution by the 70s 2 million americans had dropped acid and onethird of all collagens had smoked marijuana the escalation of the vietnam war and resistance to the draft in the second half with the Counter Culture created a nation wide spontaneous combustion spinet they had a lot to say about that. He was at stanford in his mid60s with the student body president and had long hair they kidnapped and and shaved his head meanwhile during the 60s during that political laughed there were different ideals harris found himself in the eye of the bulls eye. About the same time i took acid he was doing his trip festival a figure or around stanford. Eventually we all took acid several times a lot of the peace would get down and play. But Serious Business of how to deal with the machine. Is part of the same uprising of those who write their own ticket because that ticket written was fast and criminal at worst. It was the whole thing growing out your hair or wearing clothes that did not come from j. C. Penneys. Remember we grew up in the 50s as the time of options. When i grew up in fresno we had three choices. John wayne in iwo jima or john wayne in a eulogy by. It happened in the 60s and it was making options there other why is of the ways to be that they were insisting the way we were supposed to be. After august a group of straight antiwar activist and they shave their beards and cut their hair for the nude Eugene Mccarthy of the Moratorium Committee to end the war in viet nam and in october 15 based page the largest ever b2 Million People all over the country went on strike for one day at different defense to oppose the war. It was very threatening to the nixon in administration was adjust the radical fringe toward these freaks but both i did generational band turning against the war by then more than 50 percent were against the war so the moratorium really proved it was more than tough french be movement. Bob. So they tried to intimidate the members of the committee one was that man named david and he was gay and he had a and intimidating incident which i think was a little precursor that early they were involved with i will tell you what happened because it was shocking. I was terrified to tell my dad if i was drafted would not serve bobby because all i had to do was tell them i was gay and that would have been out instantly but being in jail five years appealed more to read and letting anyone know i was gay if that is pretty powerful the dollar had to say at would rather have gone to jail and have anyone know the truth about me i would not of had to ledoux anything else is doing or cochair of the board tory and pirko hell i had to fight there were not given good roles the movement was still massage and is that this time gave was not a chance in the world can i do anything i would immediately have been discarded and then this is what happened right after. One night i got drunk when to a remote bar and a vision from god was exactly my type mentality and, handsome and we ended up going home to gather hes that i know who you are i worked with the federal government. I know what you to panic i want to create a safe place rio i have feelings g. O. P. Had everything i loved. Call all of the great poets and records be restarted and a fair and did become a very safe place about 30 days later he said he had to go way for the weekend when he got back he said lets meet for lunch on monday i will come straight for the big airport so i sat in a booth waiting for him then choose guys with suits sat across from me showing their badges when someone shows you a bad time john wayne in iwo jima had taken a look at it quacks i dont know if they were real. They put out some naked pictures of the two of us having sex it was asif someone stuck a knife into my get to my first thought was i have to warn frank saw immediately after words the ran to his apartment to warn him i got in the place is totally empty not wind dust ball or anything and never saw him again they gave me three days to get out but are they would send the pictures to my family and press so i got very drunk until my friend had a heart condition decided to kill myself robotic done to put it underneath an actress but i wanted to get drunk enough to do with it then i had a moment of clarity when i realized theres no way they could send the photos to the press because how would they explain what does the government really want the press to know they were filming will a sexual san blackmailing them quacks maybe they had as much to lose as i did so i sobered up when they met up with me three days later are you getting out corrects i said send it to them i dont care and returned the phone rang someone said your mom and dad is on the phone about they got the pictures i dreaded hearing from them. They said the one to speak to david every single time i worried they will have the photos ally pullback in stocks speaking to the press after the october 15 moratorium there was another on november 15,500,000 people came to d. C. It was one of the aisle largest single events ever against the war ending with the march of death that david organized 38 hours people marching from Arlington Cemetery with placards of dead american servicemen all the way to the Capitol Building putting the placards in makeshift coffins lined up in front of the capital then carrying them to the white house he said that was the best revenge and also one of the most moving things he participated in in debt that moratorium there were signs that said freed the pink bill people and the reason why they came up is todays half earlier a reporter had just broken story about the massacre and did dribbled out over the course of the month and every field that american soldiers moved into a village to kill 500 civilians mostly women and Young Children and it was an absolutely devastating story doing more to help the Antiwar Movement and any march could and revealed to many how difficult war was to win because it was hard to tell who was the enemy or friends in the u. S. Had the unspoken enroll will kill anything that moves and body count was important so is happening all over vietnam soil interviewed soldiers that were there who understood that was then just day one time event and it was symptomatic of one of the many problems of the war. If fascinating person for b2 interview he did not want to woo top to me i told the story and i am sick he was very funny about it but eventually she told me the old story agree gumshoe reporting investigator how he got the first tip about the lieutenant who was in trouble he found his lawyer in south lake city he went to South Carolina and found him after days of hunting paramilitary base he told him everything he knew that was not to his benefit later he found others in the troop one of the most important people he discovered was the guy. Biting him was not that easy the leading nine new from the roster was meadlo digest found every meadlo i could find in the state. I found somebody near terre haute i called and said i am looking for paul. Is he okay . What do you mean . How is his leg . Image he is doing alright clear just reporter i want to talk about the war. She said of knowledge he will talk i said is it okay if i come quacks she said icahn promised she had a very deep indian or world waste the next dash flu to indianapolis and rentacar maybe 10 00 in the morning i could not find the place but it was a chicken farm but when they pulled into the farm i could see it was messed up with chickens all over the place his mom comes out is 50 but looks closer at 70 be down living in this old shack. I say is he in there . Is an okay quacks she said yes supporters then she says i sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer that is the line that will stick with you forever i sat down first i asked about his late which is always what you do you have got to do that. He showed me this time and then i said tell me your story. Pc why el happy to have somebody pretend nothing ever happened i just began to shoot people. I shot and shot. Twice spoke to 70 of the kids in the next six months and then of course, he won the pulitzer for that story. That was november antibiotic were not even into 1978 but by december feedings happened but most notably that of her of hampton the leader because of the aisle black panther member and was based in chicago had its peak is what i wrote at the vanguard of this rebellion was the black panther in reaction to the fbi harassment and police brutality. Two dozen m. Black panther chapter is an open across the country and Police Killed 27 panthers interested were jailed 749 j. Edgar hoover announced the black Panther Party was the greater threat to the internal security of the country and assigned to thousand fulltime fbi agents to expose and disrupt and misdirect and discredit or neutralize the panthers and other left organizations in 1969 hoover declared the new left was a firm reestablished force dedicated to the complete destruction of our Traditional Democratic values and principles of free e government so these 2000 agents were part of a secret organization they went after the panthers first but they did not stop they infiltrated vietnams many feminist groups even to communes. All lots of people who were underground and disrupting these organizations encouraging them to be more violent december 4th fred hampton was killed in his sleep 80 shots fired through his front door he and his colleagues were killed at 4 00 in the morning the bodyguard was the fbi informant slipped him a sleeping pill so he never woke up it was a coldblooded assassination they said it was a firefight but only to bullets were have shown to go from the outside or the inside to the outside so clearly it was arranged with the Chicago Police assassination and it was upsetting to a group day of radicals who split off from the students of the Democratic Society and created a more militant radical group bet they call themselves the weatherman be one of their leaders was that columbia 1960 during the student uprising and described the impact of the deaf and the fbi targeting on his group when day came along carrying guns spouting by any means unnecessary the government reacted to take them seriously to murder them meese said it is war we have got to be out there not just from the sidelines but there is always the tendency for white people to hold back and applied from the sidelines but we identified that as being racist we didnt want to be liberal to be a liberal was to be a hypocrite and betrayal. So which side are you one . A bench fed hampton became the battle cry and black power was an enormous challenge would we be racist did ignore what is happening research for the people who were fighting and taking the risks . That was the challenge for the weatherman. Most dont understand the extent of the challenge the black movement opposed to the Weather Underground and to the movement. Night interviewed several members of the black Panther Movement as well as the Weather Underground in fact, that was fascinating especially it was very reflective about what they had done and felt they made a lot of mistakes to become so militant but i wanted to know why. What motivated them to act that way . In february the weather been bombed a house of the judge in new york city presiding over the panther 21 trial at the time was the largest case it went on for months and 21 panthers were arrested in jail without bail at 100,000 bandaid firebomb to the house i interviewed the sun. That was interesting to hear his point of view but also as a victim of the bombing how terrifying and threatening but that was just the beginning. But then day blowup but famous town house on 11th street and west village three were killed there were making a bomb they planned to detonate and it would have killed dozens officers, dates, waiters and band members as an example of how far it how far out whether had gotten to fight fire with fire. After that occurred bay all went underground about 200 members assumed fake names names, moved all over the country and went west or wore wigs would do manual labor or casually jobs and living underground as long as 10 years in a joint Large Community of the underground people love draft dodgers and people who had escaped drug law and black panthers and those involved in the black power movements of there was a Large Community of hundreds of thousands living underground after the town house explosion the impact on the new left and Antiwar Movement was devastating because of course, it played right into nixons hands and hayden who started it in the early 60s and was the grandfather of the Antiwar Movement told me this, the town house explosion was stunning i knew everybody who died there were too many people who view that as the end of the 60s he can only have so many hands to the 60s there were 10 of them. It is really 1975 when it came to a natural end i did not think the town house signified the end but i felt immense sorrow and oppression by had dreams of a technical nature of what went wrong and what were they doing because for a period of time there were only fingernails laughed i just thought there were beyond logic and confirmed what i feared nobody ever came to me to say were going to kill soldiers it was one of the leaders it was j. J. Illogic of a government is killing innocent vietnamese then or job is to kill innocent americans soldiers i like it that practical morality like what the t3 are you doing quacks bring down the fbi or cia you might as well say you are organizing force john wayne in iwo jima just joined usthere are some people be will reach but is possible they really didnt care anymore about influencing american opinion. After the town houseboy nixon announced the invasion and of cambodia they have been doing is secretly but then he sent troops may first and it was not greeted at all with any sort of popular opinion everyone was up said students were still in school and they protested all over the country. And then for students killed 13 rashad by the Ohio National guard then the strike took place over the rest of the month and the country came to close as to civil war certainly has ever had in the 20th century it was the moment of pure chaos. It did not end but in a way i feel the movement and did morally august 24 that the university of wisconsin when four men bombes building to block the entire building the Research Building in a lot of research for the war was taking placethere it was a hot issue for years of doubt chemical researchers were working for dow chemical and demand named Carl Armstrong and his brother back into weatherman were on the Student Newspaper decided that would be an important symbolic building into blowup and they detonated an entire uhaul truck of ammunition to consider the largest domestic terrorist act before the oklahoma bombing. Unfortunately by mistake they killed someone, a 33 yearold physics researcher who had three children who was antiwar himself he just happened to be working at two in the morning so the armstrong brothers and their friends ran to canada they were fugitives for several years before they were discovered one did 10 years most of the people interviewed did time his example is extreme but many others did time for drugs or protest or civil disobedience and was a badge of honor. He did 10 years and that was considered even worse than Weather Underground because one of the people was never discovered and is still on the lam after that bombing whether other ground continued to bomb but they took up symbolic bombings with no intention and of killing people and actually did not kill anyone nor were they caught one of the largest manhunt in fbi history i interviewed an fbi agent phil was the main case worker for the Weather Underground and followed them 10 years and it was fascinating he knows more about them than anybody because he listened to all their conversations was funny how women were complaining me whether they did not have the power they wanted in the organization and he felt that was not true because you listen to the conversations began he felt cap the well is in charge but bill bob told me this about the weather and underground the list but maintained with the official list used by the fbi 38 bombings by had the list memorized at one time it was extremely sophisticated with their devices more so than people realize none of them have been solved in the pentagon may 72 with that in mind we would still like to find out however the statute of limitations is over for all of them except the golden Gate Police Department in california were a Police Officer was killed and nobody has ever been named. Closed the Weather Underground investigation 1927 when i wrote to the closing report because the group was the fault. Also the fbi was involved in the biggest scandal in 47 agents were indicted for disruptive behavior against the Weather Underground and many leaders came out but nobody ever went to jail because no evidence could be used against them in court. The same thing that happened for daniel had released the pentagon papers going to trial for treason but earlier they had broken into a psychiatrists office in of the phones back of a friend and revelations came out in korea that case was dropped instead of him going to jail or the Weather Underground going to jail then watergate to occurred in anyways nixon and will Antiwar Movement became a regular habit of dirty tricks and eventually got the better of them. The people that i interviewed believed nixons focus on the Antiwar Movement many were members of the movement they got better of them and very much was a precursor to watergate that is all i have for now i would love to take questions and hear everybody stories of laughs b17 spee7 team does anybody have stories they like to share or were you at any of these places . One student went out to pick it on i had a boyfriend who was very glad as a person came walking up the sidewalk to start interacting with these people to tell them they were crazy and wire they doing this . We my boyfriend just for fun took his side and argued back he actually get out a 20 bill and handed it to him laugh off. Bods you talk about the violent part of the 60s i did not hear you mention of the catholic worker spirit that is true because it focused on this particular year in that year many were violent. The brothers were on the run and mary and that whole group of wonderful catholic or a when dash organizers. I spent two years and president that made my skin crawl as a draft dodger ban draft debater. There is a big difference the dodger is used by that bad guys. [laughter] and why we win present when. I turned 18 in 64 that was prime time to turn 18 and then i have a Family Support it said meteors to convince the federal government so i could say no you had to try. Data because it was the thing to do one layer another they were putting a life on the line i could not not plan something on the line field way to do that was to get myself classified. I was a bit of a borne i suppose the lowest part of the community but that funeral was streamed down the internet but i kept hearing draft dodger is like i wanted to scream. I almost did. Makes for sharing in that wanted to interview him but he was 92 was not able to get to him that was an omission. Dial was then cornell and was just looking at the life magazine that was done on campus on the cover and some people that i knew were on the other side of the equation to get the black students out of all and were heavily armed. Blasts night i was talking to someone matter now as a precursor to tonight talking how we went in certain directions i talked haole used an image of the daily sun of them walking out and coming out of that in the editor was zuckerman was the noted producer of lawandorder now but at that time was a radical saw was extraordinary how those things then enter your narrative. I did not do cornell because that happened to little before but i interviewed panther members who had left the panthers and did not buy yen did interview julias that was very much against what the panthers were doing so interviewed part of the new haven nine u. S. Bond to jail for year said she was fascinating i tried to put did as much of that as they could to the whole story is our all huge stories then what i tried to was show that everybody had their experience but at the same time many revolutions and movements were going on at the same time so by sticking to a chronology retried to leave the difference stories together that grew out of the Antiwar Movement so was wanted to show uh global reach of what was going on. I could not go that deep and i could not do the Environmental Movement of course, that was april love 70 though most felt like another book but organic farming and communes was off tin in reaction to the ugliness of the Antiwar Movement and the violence on the streets people were changing their lives personally and was there personal statement. Banks for a remarkable achievement the story they were writing about the you lived through not for too much detail i was a member and i joined as a highschool student my best friend was david fine that was one of the four that blew up the Army Research center i went to new york with his father and was my doctor and if you were part of the movement they would say go see him so i met fred hampton it was an amazing honor to say that it just happens the medical community for humanrights in chicago as having a meeting to decide to have medical presence would came to be known as the days of rage they still do call it weatherman and fred hampton showed up to persuade them not to support that and was incredibly charismatic and showed the love for the weatherman. The irony is the panthers did not want the weatherman to get noticed but the weathermen were doing it in a way to defend the panthers not going into the whole story but this led to the people joining going to chicago to the other side of town but to rally where he also spoke. I should have interviewed you for the book club laugh. I want to rescue of a couple of dimensions into the governments repression one is dealing with sds that disintegration is crucial to my mind in this story of 69 1 7 feet with the fracture in of the movement and i have always wondered with a little bit of anecdotal research were you able to come up with much information of the role of the government of the fbi to formant bad at the National Convention that led to weatherman wet. Absolutely in second at the demonstration i was that nyu we took over the building bay 70 demanding they put up the black Panther Party 21 and people had taken over a Computer Center university if you dont put this up something will happen and the timing of the deadline was to coincide with the march that was called hard have violence and now baird has been released 1 million documents of Police Surveillance from your city the navy discovered 1 million documents from this. From these activities in which there are believed to believe details of the hard hat protest which bakes the question where was the working class with all of this . Were they just hardhats to hated the protesters georgias manipulated them with that working class element that we dont know as much as we should . Very good question. I did not delve into finding out what that fbi bed there is a lot of new documents coming out another is the new book coming on the Weather Underground all based on a new documentation and that may be also have information on the convention june 691 thing i do know is the people i talked to were getting pamphlets from the black panthers be complete these salacious one is sleeping with the panthers and that was clearly classic disruptive behavior