Anti-War Radical to Surrender
A self-professed fugitive member of the Weather Underground, the 1960s-era anti-Vietnam War group, will surrender after spending the last 24 years living and working under an alias, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Jeffrey (Donovan) Powell, now in his mid-40s, was originally charged with mob action and aggravated battery for his participation in the “Days of Rage” rioting in Chicago in October, 1969, lawyer Jeffrey Haas said.
In a typewritten note announcing his imminent surrender, Powell is referred to as the last remaining fugitive member of the Weather Underground, a radical student organization. Members of the group splintered off from the Students for a Democratic Society, of which Powell was supposedly a leader at Kent State University.
Powell disappeared on May 4, 1970, the day Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students on the Kent State campus, the note said.
Haas, who has been in contact with Powell by telephone, said a plea agreement had been worked out with Chicago authorities.
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