{"id":25656,"date":"2018-05-30T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25656"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:22:45","slug":"the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"THE REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I told<\/strong> <\/span>my dad I couldn\u2019t do pre-med because of The Revolution. How could I do eight years, minimum, of science during a revolution? My dad, surprisingly, did not think I was nuts. This was 1969, and he believed a revolution was coming too.<\/p>\n

In Ann Arbor, the Jesse James Gang splintered from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The gedolim<\/em> of the gang \u2013 Diana Oughton, Bill Ayers and Jim Mellen — wore hiking boots, wire rims, and were Hollywood handsome. They were several years older than me. The Jesse James Gang met in a U. building and encouraged us to take it to the streets.<\/p>\n

Some protestors threw rocks through store windows and carried NLF flags. An acquaintance, John Gettel, threw a rock through the Ann Arbor Bank. A couple years later I saw him on a street corner in Cleveland, passing out leaflets for Lyndon LeRouche. John had moved to Cleveland to mingle with the working class. I honked, said hi, and drove off. I was on my way to my job managing apartments.<\/p>\n

Dux Wirtanen, a Finnish-American student from the UP, got his jaw broken in a fight outside Hill Auditorium. I don\u2019t remember why. Afterward, he drank through a straw for weeks.<\/p>\n

I went<\/strong> <\/span>to Cobo Hall to protest George Wallace. The funny thing was George Wallace was a good speaker. In 1968 the Michigan Daily<\/em> endorsed Humphrey. Some of my friends thought the Daily<\/em> should endorse Eldridge Cleaver (Peace and Freedom Party).<\/p>\n

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George Wallace<\/p><\/div>\n

The Revolution petered out in late 1970, after Kent State. Youth-craziness and youth fashion shifted toward ecology — back to the land, communes, and brown rice.<\/p>\n

I blame my flame-out in organic chemistry on The Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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