Diana Oughton | |
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 Oughton in 1963 | |
| Born | January 26, 1942 Dwight, Illinois U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 1970 (age 28) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College, B.A. University of Michigan, M.A. |
| Known for | Student activist Teacher at the Children's Community School in Ann Arbor, Michigan Member of Students for a Democratic Society Member of Weather Underground |
Diana Oughton (January 26, 1942 – March 6, 1970) was an American member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. After graduation, Oughton went to Guatemala with the American Friends Service Committee program to teach the young and older Native Americans.[1]
After returning to the U.S, she worked at the Children's Community School in Ann Arbor, Michigan while getting her master's degree at the University of Michigan. She became active in SDS, eventually becoming a full-time organizer and member of the Jesse James Gang.[2][3] With the split of SDS in 1969, she joined Weather Underground.
Oughton died in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in Greenwich Village when a nail bomb she was constructing with Terry Robbins detonated. The bomb was to be used that evening at a dance for noncommissioned officers and their dates at the Fort Dix, New Jersey Army base, to "bring the [Vietnam] war home".[4]
- ^ FBI files part 2, pg. 3.
- ^ Powers, p. 87
- ^ Peter Braunstein; Michael William Doyle, eds. (July 4, 2013). Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and 70s. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-05890-5.
- ^ Powers, p. 183