Also in 1968 , Oughton and Ayers became part of the Jesse James Gang , which banded together with about 40 others against the moderates . The Jesse James Gang replaced the University of Michigan SDS chapter , and Robbins , Oughton , and Ayers worked in partnership with Jim Mellen from the Revolutionary Youth Movement Group . The Vietnam War entered its third year in the middle of 1968 . The early student movement had taken their moral stance from the teachings of Albert Camus , who taught that thinking men have the responsibility to find a way in the world to be neither a victim or the executioner . Four events in 1968 turned the American student movement into self-proclaimed Marxist – Leninist revolutionaries : the Viet Cong 's Tet Offensive , the student sit-in at Columbia University , the near-revolution in France , and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago . Each event helped change the way American radicals viewed their own situations
Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
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