13 Facts About Terry Robbins

Terry Robbins was raised in Queens County, New York by his mother Olga, a Hunter College alumna, and his father Sam, who worked at a garment factory.

When Robbins was six years old, his mother began to suffer from breast cancer, which eventually caused her death three years later.

Terry Robbins began to turn to poetry and music as a refuge, and with his sister and cousins discovered the musical world of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand.

Terry Robbins moved into the Cleveland ERAP house and began helping raise capital to support their efforts.

Terry Robbins began his summer working with the Cleveland Project, which was concentrating their efforts on creating an alternative school for children to attend in order to escape the perceived racial inequalities of the public school system.

Terry Robbins felt he had more in common with the members of the Michigan SDS.

Terry Robbins was arrested for his involvement during the demonstrations and was sentenced to serve a three-month prison term for his actions.

In December 1969, Terry Robbins served six weeks of his three-month jail sentence in a Cleveland area prison.

Terry Robbins joined with John Jacobs, a Columbia graduate and former Progressive Labor Party member; Ted Gold, a Columbia SDS chapter leader; Kathy Boudin, a fellow member of the Cleveland ERAP; Cathy Wilkerson; and Diana Oughton.

Terry Robbins was an English major and poet and not very proficient in the makings of electricity and dynamite.

Terry Robbins believed it was his job to learn how it worked and was able to obtain a basic circuit design to detonate the dynamite on a timer.

Terry Robbins had decided that the basement was the safest place to make the bombs and moved all equipment there.

Terry Robbins was convinced that extreme acts of destruction was the way for the organization to move into a revolution.