OLLI-HIST-2273 - Surrender: My Journey from Guerrilla to Grandmother

Course Description

In 1970, at the height of unrest over the Vietnam War, Brandeis student Katherine Power abandoned her commitment to peace and joined a violent revolutionary group. During a bank robbery by this “guerrilla band,” Boston Police Officer Walter Schroeder was killed. For more than two decades, Power eluded police and the FBI, settling into an ordinary life as a chef, neighbor, and mother. In 1993, she surrendered to authorities, pled guilty to her crimes, and served six years in prison. In her memoir, Surrender: My Journey from Guerrilla to Grandmother, Katherine Power recounts and reflects on her path from defiance and denial through layers of surrender. In this course, she will read excerpts from the memoir and invite questions and discussion from participants.