‘I Spent My Childhood in a Family Hunted by the FBI’

An account of a childhood spent in a family pursued by the FBI recalls a radical call to bring the violence of the Vietnam War onto the streets of the United States.

“At that time, they had a slogan: bring the war home,” the speaker recalled, describing an idea that went beyond protesting American actions abroad.

The aim, according to the account, was to reproduce the violence witnessed in Vietnam inside the United States. Those behind the slogan wanted Americans to confront at home what their country was doing overseas.

The recollection places a childhood under the shadow of an FBI pursuit alongside that belief in violence as a means of awakening public awareness. It offers a stark description of the thinking behind the slogan, without detailing the family’s activities or the circumstances of the pursuit.