NationStates Jolt Archive

Whoops! Double posted... please check the other thread..

I was absent the day the class selected people so all the well known ones, LBJ, Castro, JFK, MLK, Malcom X... taken..

Who is a really interesting person I could do who no one would have taken? I want someone kind of like MLK or Malcom X that were really big in social movements maybe, or someone that gets me a chance to look at U.S. corruption during the time.

No boring loser people like "first women to be on President's cabinet for blah blah" or "first black man to use his high jumping and fast running skills for CIA" or any boring thing like that..

I'm sure some of you guys know some interesting subjects.. SHARE EM so I can make everyone in the class feel dumb for not getting who I get!!

OH! And the guys that raised their fists at the olympics-- taken.

Thanks... I'll check back in the morning...
Lenny Bruce.

Timothy Leary? Charles Manson? Hunter S Thompson (I know he was more of the '70s, but he did Hell's Angels in the '60s)? Barry Goldwater? John Daley (mayor of Chicago)? Bobbie Kenedy? J. Edgar Hoover?

Personally I'd go with Leary myself, pick up a copy of The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and enjoy.

Look into Bernardine Dohrn, one of the founders of the Weather Underground, a radical group that broke away from the Students for a Democratic Society. The FBI called them "the most dangerous radicals in America."

The Weathermen got their name from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues:"

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

They broke LSD advocate Timothy Leary out of prison; set off bombs at the Pentagon (in response to Nixon's increased bombing of North Vietnam), the New York State Department of Corrections (after the Attica prison riot), the home of a New York City judge who was presiding over a trial of some Black Panthers; and embraced drugs and sexual experimentation.

There is a great documentary on video about them called, coincidently, The Weather Underground.