Jane Lauren Alpert was born on May 20,1947 and is an American former far left radical who conspired in the bombings of eight government and commercial office buildings in New York City in 1969.
33 Facts About Jane Alpert
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Jane Alpert was born in May 1947 and grew up in the New York City area.
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Jane Alpert's mother graduated from high school at fourteen and then graduated from Hunter College at eighteen.
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Jane Alpert graduated from Forest Hills High School two years before her graduating class and attended Swarthmore College.
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Jane Alpert continued to do well academically, read constantly, and began to make friends.
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Jane Alpert was involved in her first demonstration in the fall of her first year of college.
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Jane Alpert had attended graduate school at Columbia University but had not been active in the movement there.
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Jane Alpert attended Swarthmore College, graduating with honors in 1967 after developing an interest in radical politics.
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Jane Alpert did graduate work at Columbia University but quit after the 1968 student uprising.
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Jane Alpert wrote for Rat, a New York City underground newspaper, and had become involved with the Black Panther Party by the time she met Sam Melville in 1968.
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Jane Alpert's autobiography Growing up Underground was published in 1981.
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Melville and Jane Alpert became more involved with politics; they became romantically involved as well, and Jane Alpert moved to the Lower East Side to live with Melville at his apartment.
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Jane Alpert was released on bail and lived underground while Melville was incarcerated.
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Jane Alpert learned that Melville was killed at Attica Prison, in New York, in 1971 and wrote an epitaph that was published in the Rat.
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Jane Alpert was involved with several bombings and authored the letters that were released to the press.
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Jane Alpert was charged with bombing eight government and corporate office buildings during a three-month bombing spree in 1969.
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Jane Alpert planted a bomb on the floor of the New York Federal Building, which housed US military.
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Jane Alpert said she felt a sense of hyperawareness surrounding her, and she felt happy and fearful at the same time.
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Jane Alpert watched the bomb go off from a distant building and felt that the 2 AM eruption brought the revolution an inch or two closer.
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Jane Alpert was not arrested for the New York Corporate Office bombing and was still wanted.
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Jane Alpert headed back to the east coast and stopped in Boston to visit Boudin.
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Jane Alpert turned herself in on November 17,1974 at the Office of the United States Attorney in New York City after being underground for four and a half years.
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Jane Alpert affirmed her ongoing commitment to political activism and did not offer regrets about the actions she had undertaken in the past.
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Jane Alpert differentiated between her self now and her self then in her surrender statement; she explained her role in the bombings as "craziness", and suggested that her relationship with Sam Melville was a catalyst for her actions.
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Jane Alpert acknowledged her feminism, which provided evidence that she would not engage in the same activities now that she did then because of a heightened awareness of power relationships in the male-female interactions.
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Jane Alpert received and served a 27-month jail sentence for the bombing conspiracy and for jumping bail.
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Jane Alpert wrote Mother Right: A New Feminist Theory in 1974; her audience was women involved in the Feminist Media.
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Jane Alpert had been underground for three years when she released her piece for publication.
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Jane Alpert's book is a confessional memoir wherein she writes about her experiences as a political activist.
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Jane Alpert wrote the book to set the record straight about her personal role in the bombings of New York City buildings in 1969 and her life underground in the early 1970s.
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Jane Alpert explains what happened in 1969 and how she got involved in the Weather Underground Organization.
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Jane Alpert writes about her misunderstood childhood and her account of her life underground.
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Jane Alpert was supported by her family and friends financially while she lived underground.