Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Container	Title
	Series: Weather Underground Organization Interviews, 1976-1979
Box 24 Folder 10	Interview notebooks (5)
Audio 1279A/17-18	Clapp, Peter, 1979 February 4 Scope and Content Note: Regarding goals and views of WUO, the New York townhouse incident, women's role within WUO, and the organization's collapse; revolution and the working class, theories on FBI attempts to break up the organization, Columbia University, cadre schools, armed struggle, and black and women's movements.
Audio 1279A/19	Clark, Judy and Jane Speilman, 1979 January 15 Scope and Content Note: Clark and Speilman, who were involved in a suit against the FBI, discuss topics such as FBI file information, illegal actions, and harassment.
Audio 1279A/20-21	de Antonio, Emile, 1976-1977 Scope and Content Note: Regarding difficulties of setting up the film Underground (1976), secret meetings with Weather Underground members, FBI operations and other obstacles during production, screening in Madison, and early reactions to the film, as well as goals, problems, and personalities.
Audio 1279A/22	Gilbert, Dave Scope and Content Note: Regarding views on political revolution, U.S. exploitation of developing nations, oppression of women and minorities, the women's movement, rise of religious sects in the U.S., and barriers to the New Left.
Audio 1279A/23	Gilbert, Dave (continued) Scope and Content Note: Regarding white supremacy and racism, his own background, events and movements in the 1960s, Gilbert's role and views on SDS, PL, and the Columbia University student strike.
Audio 1279A/24	Gilbert, Dave (continued) Scope and Content Note: Regarding sexuality and the revolutionary youth movement, WUO and Gilbert's involvement in it, trashing, gang actions, Days of Rage, violence at Flint, and carrying out low level military violence.
Audio 1279A/26	Oglesby, Carl, Washington, D.C., 1979 February 15 Scope and Content Note: Oglesby discusses WUO, the SDS, PL, the Boulder Conference, COINTELPRO activity and its effect on the WUO, his role as a liberal non-communist and resistance to him as such, and relationships between groups and factions.
Audio 1279A/27	Oglesby, Carl (continued) Scope and Content Note: Regarding the pervasiveness of clandestine operations; a panel discussion involving Sid Stapleton on COINTELPRO, and Donald Freid? on intelligence relating to the Watergate and Patricia Hearst affairs; an unidentified woman talks on subversion of the women's movement.
Audio 1279A/28	Swearingen, Wes 1979 February 17 Scope and Content Note: A retired FBI agent discusses WUO, stakeouts on de Antonio's film, surveillance, discovery of a bomb factory in San Francisco, other investigations and issues.
Audio 1279A/29	Zilsel, Joanne, Paul Hoebner, Bill Gardiner, Leslie Abrahamson Scope and Content Note: Zilsel (former member of WUO), Hoebner and Gardiner (former FBI agents), and Abrahamson (defense team member for a WUO case) discuss the WUO, the case, the FBI, and the plotted kidnapping of Jennifer Dohrn's baby.