PROTEST

Jeff Jones went to his first rally against the Vietnam War in 1965. Within a year, he had quit Antioch College to become a fulltime organizer for Students for a Democratic Society.

In 1966 he traveled to Cambodia to meet with high-level leaders of the NLF.  In 1967 and 1968 he served as SDS Regional Organizer for New York City. In 1969, he was elected, along with Bill Ayers and Mark Rudd, to SDS national office. Then, in the spring of 1970, he disappeared. As a leader of the Weather Underground, Jeff evaded an intense FBI manhunt for more than a decade. In 1981, they finally got him. Twenty special agents battered down the door of the Bronx apartment where he was living with his wife and four-year-old son.

Jeff writes about his experiences in the forthcoming book, Sing a Battle Song, which is being published by Seven Stories Press.

See also:

A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience, by Thai Jones.

Fugitive Days: A Memoir, by Bill Ayers.

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