Carl Oglesby, president of the New Left group Students for a Democratic Society from 1965 to 1966, political philosopher, activist, and musician has died at age 76.
Boston Herald: "Born in 1935 and an undergraduate at Kent State University, Oglesby was
years older than Gitlin and other ’60s student radicals he befriended
and was living a much straighter life at the time he met them. He was
married, with three children, and was working for a defense contractor.
But while studying part time at the University of Michigan, in Ann
Arbor, he was so disgusted by the Vietnam War and so taken with the
then-emerging Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the society
with him, that he soon became its president and most memorable orator."
R.I.P.
