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...fall of 1971, when word came that Attica prisoners had revolted and were holding hostages, Alpert says she knew instantly that Melville would be killed. As she tells it, confirmation came from a Los Angeles radio announcer who said, "Here's one death no one will regret-Samuel Melville, the mad bomber." In her grief, she blurted out to a friend that she had known one of the Attica victims. When the friend innocently passed the word around, Alpert took to the road once again...
Melville's death brought Alpert high celebrity in radical circles as a sort of gold star widow of the left. For an Introduction to a book of his prison letters, she wrote a warm memoir of Melville that in passing chided him for his attitudes toward women. But as the radical movement disintegrated and feminism rose, her views about her dead lover hardened. He became a violent sexist who had manipulated her love in large and small ways, including once writing "wash me" on a refrigerator to remind her of her domestic duties. In 1973 she wrote a long...
...footnote to the years of the counterculture, former Political Revolution ary Jane Alpert, 27, last week surrendered to federal authorities in New York City after living on the lam for 4½ years. She had jumped bail after her conviction in 1970 for conspiring to bomb Manhattan buildings as part of the extreme left's antiEstablishment, anti-corporation, antiwar crusade...
Much had happened in the interval. The Viet Nam War had ended for Americans. A comrade-in-arms, described by Alpert's attorney as her lover, had been killed in 1971 as lawmen stormed New York's Attica state prison to quell a convict uprising. Over the years Alpert, a Swarthmore graduate and ardent feminist, concluded that the radical movement was male dominated and sexist. She also tired of life as a fugitive. "I did not want to spend my life hiding out," she told Federal District Judge Milton Pollack. Accompanied by her parents (her father...
...five years in prison on the conspiracy charge, an other five for fleeing. Her return raised speculation about whether such other young women radicals as Kathy Boudin, who fled a bombed-out Greenwich Village town house in 1970, and Patricia Swinton, charged as a co-conspirator with Alpert but never found by police, may also come in out of the cold. A more intriguing question was whether Heiress Patricia Hearst is either willing or able to escape her radical abductors and re-embrace the family she has publicly as sailed...