Video: David Gilbert | Extended Prison Interview (Weather Underground)
David Gilbert grew up in a Jewish family in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was an Explorer Scout, and his father was Post Leader, of a South Brookline Explorer Post. Inspired in his teens by the Greensboro sit-ins and other events of the Civil Rights Movement, he joined the Congress of Racial Equality at age seventeen. He entered Columbia University in 1962. In March 1965, Gilbert founded the Independent Committee on Vietnam (ICV) at Columbia University. Later, in the same year, he co-founded the Columbia University Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) which merged with ICV in the Fall of 1966, even though there was already a chapter set in place that was formed in the early 1960s. The SDS chapter founded by Gilbert became renowned.[2]...