Alpert, Jane
Alpert Jane
(Revised Tue Jun 20 2023)
The information below is from the book cover of
Alpert, Jane. Growing Up Underground, William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1981
Time of her arrest
22 year old
An honors graduate of Swarthmore
Staff writer for the Rat
A biweekly radical counterculture publication
Arrested in 1969
Charged with bombing
Whitehall Induction Center
Marine Midland Bank
And 5 other corporate and government buildings
Arrested with
Sam Melville
Her lover
Killed in the Attica prison riot
Plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy
Jumped bail six months later
6 months later
Became a fugitive
Went underground
When she gave up her identity she had no intention of ever resuming her former life
1974 changed her mind
Renounced the left, not her opposition to the war
Declared her new commitment to feminism
She surrendered to the government
Began serving a two-year prison term,
For the bombing
Bail jumping
First of her generation of radicals to
Suggest publicly that the idealism of the sixties was in some ways corrupt
She became the center of controversy in the left and in the feminist movement
Published in
MS
Rolling Stone
New York Daily News
- End of Notes this story –
Prologue A Meeting 1968 pages 13 to 18
Photo Credit
https://twitter.com/janealpert?lang=en
Bibliography
Books
Jane Alpert. Growing Up Underground (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1981)
Mark Rudd, My Life with SDS and the Weathermen Underground (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009)
Revised Tue Jun 20 2023
Started Mon Jun 12 2023
Alpert Jane
(Revised Tue Jun 20 2023)
The information below is from the book cover of
Alpert, Jane. Growing Up Underground, William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1981
Time of her arrest
22 year old
An honors graduate of Swarthmore
Staff writer for the Rat
A biweekly radical counterculture publication
Arrested in 1969
Charged with bombing
Whitehall Induction Center
Marine Midland Bank
And 5 other corporate and government buildings
Arrested with
Sam Melville
Her lover
Killed in the Attica prison riot
Plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy
Jumped bail six months later
6 months later
Became a fugitive
Went underground
When she gave up her identity she had no intention of ever resuming her former life
1974 changed her mind
Renounced the left, not her opposition to the war
Declared her new commitment to feminism
She surrendered to the government
Began serving a two-year prison term,
For the bombing
Bail jumping
First of her generation of radicals to
Suggest publicly that the idealism of the sixties was in some ways corrupt
She became the center of controversy in the left and in the feminist movement
Published in
MS
Rolling Stone
New York Daily News
- End of Notes this story –
Prologue A Meeting 1968 pages 13 to 18
Photo Credit
https://twitter.com/janealpert?lang=en
Bibliography
Books
Jane Alpert. Growing Up Underground (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1981)
Mark Rudd, My Life with SDS and the Weathermen Underground (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009)
Revised Tue Jun 20 2023
Started Mon Jun 12 2023