Larry Grathwohl has passed away.
When I was in high school, I read Larry’s book, Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer With the Weathermen. I got it out of the Poughkeepsie public library.
And it changed the way I felt about the Sixties radicals that my teachers, and much of society, wanted me to admire.
Many years later, I was honored to meet Larry at a conference sponsored by Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival.
I was also honored to re-release Larry’s book this year, and we spent some time on the road in Florida introducing the book, and Larry, to new audiences.
Here is the last paragraph of Larry’s book:
The Weathermen’s government will be one of total control over each individual in the society. In Weathermen terminology, this new society will be “one people working in total unity.” This means an elimination of all the individual freedoms we are accustomed to having; it was my absolute belief in the freedoms offered by our form of government that drove me to fight the Weathermen in the first place. Even though I am no longer in the underground movement where I could help prevent violence before it happened, as in Dayton, Detroit, Madison, and Buffalo, while creating as much disunity as possible, I am still working against Weathermen and other radical conspiracies. Their way of life is not mine.
Larry was a sweet and decent and very wise man. He risked his life to protect us from murderous adolescent Marxists like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Doubtlessly there would be family members of police and soldiers who would be without their loved ones tonight if Larry had not infiltrated the Weather Underground and exposed their crimes.
Many of us are in shock tonight.
–Tina Trent
Brandon Darby writes about Larry at Breitbart
Jim Simpson on Larry at Pajamas Media


1. Comment by Matthew Vadum
18/Jul/2013 at 6:36 pm
He was a great patriot. I am honored to have known him.
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I love that photo. I captures Larry. No pretense, just a good honest American, a hero.
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31/Jul/2013 at 6:48 am
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16. Comment by Lindsay Grathwohl
18/Feb/2014 at 4:28 pm
My dad was a true hero in every way. I miss him terribly. Thank-you all for writing such great things. It helps me get through each day just seeing how he touched so many lives. Today, it has been 7 months since he was found in his condo. It has been a difficult road.
17. Comment by Tina
20/Feb/2014 at 1:57 pm
Oh Lindsay, I think of your dad all the time. It’s a great loss that we don’t have his voice right now, but it’s also such a shame that he couldn’t live to see all the good he did, both personally and politically. He was terribly brave, and he was somebody who faced the facts, and he was just a deeply decent person.
Tina