Word: bohmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space of a couple of years during the early seventies, Peter Bohmer, a professor at San Diego State University, was repeatedly threatened, shot at, and had his office firebombed as a result of his anti-war activities. After being arrested for demonstrating Bohmer was hounded from his job and confined to a hospital for the criminally insane for observation. Later a local court ordered him to leave California because of his record of arrests at demonstrations. Though the local police cooperated enthusiastically, the architect of the harassment campaign against Bohmer was an FBI informant in a right-wing terrorist group...
...tried to drive wedges within the SWP by similar means over doctrinal, racial and sexual issues. They attempted to pit the party and its allies in the civil rights and anti-war movements against one and another. And, as in Bohmer's case, the FBI often stooped to intimidation. By pressuring employers to remove leftists from their staffs, the FBI was able to "separate from their employment" a good number of SWPers, particularly in educational institutions in the South and Southwest...
This information apparently concerns Bohmer's arrest and conviction for participation in a political demonstration on January 16, 1970 at MIT. Bohmer later served a 45-day prison term...
...students had charged Bohmer with imposing his political views on his students. If the faculty panel which investigated the charges had found Bohmer guilty, it could have recommended immediate dismissal...
...panel's recommendations were approved by Walker who, as President, has final authority. Walker said in his press statement his decision not to rehire Bohmer was not related to these charges...