Dianne Donghi
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Dianne Marie Donghi is a former member of Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
and Weatherman (organization)
.
(SDS) and a member of Weatherman by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) investigative report. She was affiliated with the Columbia University
SDS chapter as well as the New York chapter. During July 1969, Donghi was one of the SDS Weatherwomen who traveled with Bernardine Dohrn
to Havana, Cuba to meet and talk with representatives of Cuba, National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) and the North Vietnamese governments. Donghi spoke at a press conference held on August 19, 1969 at the New York City Diplomat Hotel after the group returned home from Cuba. She also spoke at a National Action Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio during August 29-September 2, 1969. In preparation for Action Week in Chicago, Illinois, Donghi as well as Bernardine Dohrn
, Linda Sue Evans, Mark Rudd
and Jeff Jones
helped to organize and recruit support for the October 8-11, 1969 Days of Rage
, an event where Donghi herself was arrested and considered by FBI to be a co-conspirator. On October 11, 1969 Donghi was arrested for mob actions, which she pleaded guilty on December 16, 1969; she was fined a $90 fee and sentenced to serve one day in the county jail. In December 1969, Donghi was one of many who attended the Weatherman “War Council” in Flint, Michigan
.
, Bernardine Dohrn
, Bill Ayers
, Kathy Boudin
, Cathy Wilkerson, Russ Neufeld, Jane Spielman, Ronald Fliegelman, Arlo Jacobs, Naomi Jaffe
and Larry Grathwohl were indicted for conspiracy to bomb police stations and government buildings in four cities and to harm people inside. After attending her court hearings, Donghi decided to become a part of the WUO's above ground support.
Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969...
and Weatherman (organization)
Weatherman (organization)
Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization , was an American radical left organization. It originated in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their...
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SDS
Donghi was identified as a leader of Students for a Democratic SocietyStudents for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969...
(SDS) and a member of Weatherman by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) investigative report. She was affiliated with the Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
SDS chapter as well as the New York chapter. During July 1969, Donghi was one of the SDS Weatherwomen who traveled with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn is a former leader of the American anti-Vietnam War radical organization, Weather Underground. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center...
to Havana, Cuba to meet and talk with representatives of Cuba, National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) and the North Vietnamese governments. Donghi spoke at a press conference held on August 19, 1969 at the New York City Diplomat Hotel after the group returned home from Cuba. She also spoke at a National Action Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio during August 29-September 2, 1969. In preparation for Action Week in Chicago, Illinois, Donghi as well as Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn is a former leader of the American anti-Vietnam War radical organization, Weather Underground. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center...
, Linda Sue Evans, Mark Rudd
Mark Rudd
Mark William Rudd is a political organizer, mathematics instructor, and anti-war activist, most well known for his involvement with the Weather Underground. Rudd became a member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963. By 1968, he had emerged as a leader...
and Jeff Jones
Jeff Jones (activist)
Jeff Jones is an environmental activist and consultant in Upstate New York. He was a national officer in Students for a Democratic Society, a founding member of Weatherman, and a leader of the Weather Underground....
helped to organize and recruit support for the October 8-11, 1969 Days of Rage
Days of Rage
The Days of Rage demonstrations were a series of direct actions taken over a course of three days in October 1969 in Chicago organized by the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society...
, an event where Donghi herself was arrested and considered by FBI to be a co-conspirator. On October 11, 1969 Donghi was arrested for mob actions, which she pleaded guilty on December 16, 1969; she was fined a $90 fee and sentenced to serve one day in the county jail. In December 1969, Donghi was one of many who attended the Weatherman “War Council” in Flint, Michigan
Flint, Michigan
Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...
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Weatherman
Donghi became affiliated with Weatherman Cincinnati collective in Ohio on January 15 1970. She eventually became sole leader of the collective. Later Donghi spent time at the Chicago and New York collectives. Sometime in February 1970, Donghi was arrested in Chicago by the FBI on charges of interstate transportation of stolen weapons. The case was thrown out by the U.S. Attorney because it had been set up by an inside informer of Weatherman. On April 15, 1970, after attempting to forge checks using a false name, Donghi and good friend Linda Sue Evans were arrested in New York City. Donghi was arrested in the Greenwich Village hotel room she had shared with Cincinnati collective member Larry Grathwohl (alias Tom Niehman), with whom she had formed a relationship. Donghi and others had been suspicious of Grathwohl, who was in fact an undercover FBI agent. Grathwohl had to blow his cover in order to make the arrest. Donghi was released from jail later that day with a bail of $10,000. On July 23, after being sought out by authorities for fugitive warrants on other federal or local cases, Donghi, Linda Sue Evans, Mark RuddMark Rudd
Mark William Rudd is a political organizer, mathematics instructor, and anti-war activist, most well known for his involvement with the Weather Underground. Rudd became a member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963. By 1968, he had emerged as a leader...
, Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn is a former leader of the American anti-Vietnam War radical organization, Weather Underground. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center...
, Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers
William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction...
, Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin is a former American radical who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder for her participation in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of three people. She later became a public health expert while in prison...
, Cathy Wilkerson, Russ Neufeld, Jane Spielman, Ronald Fliegelman, Arlo Jacobs, Naomi Jaffe
Naomi Jaffe
Naomi Esther Jaffe is a former undergraduate student of Herbert Marcuse and member of the Weather Underground Organization. Jaffe was recently the Executive Director of Holding Our Own, a multiracial foundation for women.-Early life:...
and Larry Grathwohl were indicted for conspiracy to bomb police stations and government buildings in four cities and to harm people inside. After attending her court hearings, Donghi decided to become a part of the WUO's above ground support.