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joined [[Weather Underground (organization)|The Weatherman]] movement for a breif time before going underground after planting a bomb at the [[University of Washington|University of Washintgon's]] ROTC building. <ref name="Silas"/> Bissell was arested after 17 years of being underground and served 18 monthes in jail. <ref name="mosely"/> |
joined [[Weather Underground (organization)|The Weatherman]] movement for a breif time before going underground after planting a bomb at the [[University of Washington|University of Washintgon's]] ROTC building. <ref name="Silas"/> Bissell was arested after 17 years of being underground and served 18 monthes in jail. <ref name="mosely"/> |
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Silas Bissell (April 27, 1942- June 15, 2002) [1] joined The Weatherman movement for a breif time before going underground after planting a bomb at the University of Washintgon's ROTC building. [2] Bissell was arested after 17 years of being underground and served 18 monthes in jail. [3]
Pre Weatherman
Silas Trim Bissell was born April 27, 1942. [1] Silas Bissell’s father, Wadsworth, was the son to the founder of the Bissell carpet sweeper company but was disinherited for refusing to join the family business. Silas’ mother, Hillary, was a civil rights activist. [2] Bissell attended the University of Michigan, where he won three prestigious Hopwood Awards for his poetry. He fell in love with Judith Emily Siff, a New Yorker whom he would later marry.[2] He was jailed during his senior year for taking part in a civil rights sit-in. [1] He graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in English literature and went on to Syracuse University for a master's in creative writing in 1965. When Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated and protesters stormed Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, they joined a Seattle draft resistance group. Eventually they were drawn to the Weatherman organization. [2]
Weatherman
As a married couple in a movement that scorned monogamy as bourgeois, the Bissells were constantly challenged by members of Weatherman to prove their loyalty. Their chance came on Jan. 17, 1970, after being asked to plant a bomb at the University of Washington. They placed a home-made incendiary device under the steps of the University of Washington’s ROTC building. It did not go off because of a malfunction. The Bissells were caught by campus police almost immediately, leading them to think they had been set up by members of Weatherman. [2]
Underground
They posted $50,000 in bonds and were going to face trial in Seattle until, according to Bissell, Weatherman Mark Rudd urged them to go underground. Traveling by bus and train, they relocated from Seattle to San Francisco, but were now shunned by fellow Weathermen. They wound up in Boston, where the mounting pressures of hiding underground finally destroyed the Bissells' marriage. They parted at the end of 1970. [2] Silas Bissell, Following their split, worked in food co-ops, painted pictures and learned to play the fiddle. After getting a job as a nurse's aide, he went back to school: He earned a bachelor's in biology from North Carolina Central University in 1979 and a master's in physical therapy from Duke University in 1981.[1] In 1981, he moved to Eugene, Oregon and got a job as a physical therapist. [2]
Arrest
On January 29, 1987, a knock at his front door brought him out of hiding. FBI agents arrested him, saying they received an anonymous tip from someone who saw his picture on a wanted poster. It was Bissell’s conclusion that he was turned in to the FBI in Eugene by a longtime friend for a $5,500 reward.[4] Silas Bissell was arrested on charges of conspiracy to destroy federal property and possession of an unregistered destruction devise in connection to an attempt to blow up the University of Washintgon ROTC building. [3] He received a two-year sentence but was released after 18 months on custody. While behind bars, he married schoolteacher Ruth Evan, who had known him in high school in Grand Rapids and written letters to him while in prison.
After Release
After being released he and Ruth moved back to Eugene, where he devoted himself to sculpture and painting. He achieved some commercial success, showing in several West Coast galleries. He used most of the proceeds from the sale of his art to fund human rights work. In 1993, he founded the Campaign for Labor Rights, a national organization opposed to sweatshop conditions in factories around the world, and served for several years as national director. Although partially paralyzed as a result of special chemotherapy for the cancer that was diagnosed in late 2000, Bissell continued to work as an artist until shortly before his death. Silas Trim Bissell, 60, died in Eugene, Oregon, of brain cancer on June 15, 2002. [5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Woo, Elaine. "Portrait of the Artist as a Complex Man." The Los Angeles Times 23 June
- ^ a b c d e f g "Silas Trim Bissell, 60, Longtime Antiwar Fugitive." New York Times 25 June 2002, Print.
- ^ a b Mosely, Joe. "Board says Silas Bissell can practice." Eugene Register-Guard 25 Feb 1987: B. Print.
- ^ Marshall, John. "TRIM BISSELL RETURNS." Seattle PI 1Sep 1992: C1. Print.
- ^ "Silas Trim Bissell, 60, a member of the militant 1960s...." Baltimore Sun 18 June 2002: B. Print.