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Diana - The Making of a Terrorist - Part I Diana - The Making of a Terrorist - Part I
By LUCINDA FRANKS and THOMAS POWERS
When Diana Oughton, dead at 28, was buried in Dwight, Ill., on Tuesday, March 24, 1970, the family and friends gathered at her grave did not really know who she was.
Diana - Struggle with values began in Guatemala (Part II)
By LUCINDA FRANKS and THOMAS POWERS
By the time she had graduated from Bryn Mawr in June of 1963, Diana Oughton had traveled among the poor in the byways of Europe and worked closely with children in one of Philadelphia's decaying ghettos, but she did not really begin to learn about poverty until she went to Guatemala.
Diana - Luxuries in U.S. made her uneasy - Part III
By LUCINDA FRANKS and THOMAS POWERS
The Diana Oughton who returned from Guatemala in the fall of 1965 was not the same young woman who had graduated from Bryn Mawr two years earlier.
Diana - Dedicates life to violent Weathermen - Part IV
By LUCINDA FRANKS and THOMAS POWERS
The final nine months of Diana Oughton's life were absorbed almost entirely by the disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the growth of a new, much smaller organization which turned to terrorism as the Weathermen.
Diana - Illusions shattered, violence exhilarates her - Part V
By LUCINDA FRANKS and THOMAS POWERS
During the late fall of 1969 the Weathermen had few illusions about their ability to spark a revolution in the United States, but their fanaticism only seemed to increase as a result.

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