THIRTEEN SDS WEATHER UNDERGROUND FUGITIVES WANTED BY FBI 1970 POSTER MAILERS.
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Winning Bid:
$231.04
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
These are 4x8" mailers that open to 8x8". All are dated and were issued throughout 1970, with several from April/May 1970 after defendants failed to appear in court on changes related to the Chicago 1969 Days of Rage demonstration. All have a paper seal on two edges that kept flier shut during mailing. Fronts are addressed to various postmasters, marshals and businesses across the USA. Reverse lists FBI offices across USA. Four mailers have top corners hole punched and three of these have re-enforcing rings applied for use in a notebook. These four are VF and the other nine are Exc. to NM.
First is for Cathlyn Wilkerson who used her father's West 11th St. Greenwich Village townhouse as a bomb factory resulting in an explosion that killed three fellow WUO members. Second is for Ronald Fliegelman who, after the 11th St blast, became the WUO bomb making guru. Third is Judith Clark, a WUO member who continued beyond the 1970s and was convicted of murder in the 1981 Brink's robbery. Fourth is Robert Roth, a key member of SDS at Columbia and later a WUO member. Fifth is John Fuerst, a fugitive after the Days of Rage and purchaser of dynamite in Tuscon then taken to California. Sixth is Leonard Handelsman. We can't find much about his WUO career but he became a well known psychiatry doctor/professor at Duke. Seventh is Michael Spiegel, once National Secretary of SDS and arrested during Days of Rage before going underground. Eighth is John Jacobs, a member of the "National Action Staff" and major planner of Days of Rage. Ninth is Howard Machtinger who co-wrote and signed the original document leading to the break of the WUO from SDS. Tenth is Thomas Justesen, a leading member of SDS in Seattle. He, along with (11th) Lawrence Weiss left his fingerprints in the abandoned San Francisco apt. dubbed the "Pine Street Bomb Factory". Twelfth is Jeffrey Jones, arrested during Days of Rage and in 1970 he lived with Bernadette Dohrn in SF. Last is Wendy Panken. Not much info found but likely a fugitive for failing to appear in court on Days of Rage charges. An outstanding group of offical government items featuring the most radical activists of the anti-war movement.
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