Waihangahia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I te tau 1968, ka uru a Oughton raua ko Ayers ki roto i te Jesse James Gang, i whakakotahi tahi me etahi atu 40 ki nga kaitautoko. Ko te Jesse James Gang i whakakapi i te University of Michigan SDS upoko, a ko Robbins, Oughton, me Ayers i mahi tahi me Jim Mellen mai i te Roopu Huringa Rangatahi Huringa. I uru te Pakanga o Vietnam ki tōna toru o nga tau i waenganui o 1968. Ko te nekehanga ākonga o mua i mau i to rātau tūnga matatika mai i ngā whakaakoranga a Albert Camus, nāna i whakaako ko te tangata whakaaro te kawenga ki te kimi i tētahi ara i roto i te ao kia kaua ai e waiho hei patunga, hei kaiwhiu rānei. E whā ngā takahanga i te tau 1968 i huri ai te nekeneke ākonga o Amerika ki te hunga whakakeke Marxist-Leninist: Ko te Tet Offensive o Viet Cong, te nohoanga ākonga i te Whare Wānanga o Columbia, te hurihanga tata i Wīwī, me te Democratic National Convention
i roto i te Chicago. I āwhina ia takahanga ki te huri i te āhua o te tirohanga a ngā kaihautū o Amerika ki a rātau ake āhuatanga.