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

An account of growing up in a family pursued by the FBI describes a slogan that sought to bring the violence of the Vietnam War onto American streets.

“At the time, they had a slogan: Bring the war home,” the speaker recalled. The idea was to recreate inside the United States the violence being witnessed in Vietnam.

The stated aim was to awaken the American public to what their country was doing abroad. In that thinking, bringing violence closer to home would make a distant war impossible to ignore.

The recollection places a childhood lived under FBI pursuit alongside that radical approach to opposing the war. The brief account does not identify the family or specify what actions led to the bureau’s pursuit.