Weatherman Bank Bomber Yippie Ronald Kaufman - Original 1972 FBI Wanted Posters For Sale

Weatherman Bank Bomber Yippie Ronald Kaufman - Original 1972 FBI Wanted Posters
Very desirable set of two original wanted posters issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Ronald Kaufman. This listing includes a full-size 10.5x16 poster as well as a smaller 8x8 poster. The posters are in near-perfect condition. Please see the photos for further details.
From a 1986 Chicago Tribune ArticleBANK BOMB SUSPECT FROM `70S ARRESTEDA Vietnam War-era radical who has eluded authorities for 14 years since his indictment for allegedly planting bombs in banks in Chicago, New York and San Francisco has been arrested in San Francisco, the FBI announced Wednesday. Ronald Kaufman, a Milwaukee native and a friend of former yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, was arrested Tuesday. He had been living under the name of Thomas Gifford and working as a building manager in San Francisco, the FBI said.Kaufman is married, but the FBI said his wife had no knowledge of his past. He did not resist arrest and admitted that he was Kaufman, according to the FBI.Before Kaufman`s indictment on the bombing charges in 1972, his name was little known compared with other radicals, such as Hoffman, a protest leader with whom Kaufman lived for a time in Chicago, authorities said.Except for that friendship and a lawsuit Kaufman and others filed to permit antiwar demonstrators to sleep in city parks during the turbulent, 1968 Democratic Convention, authorities found nothing to classify him as a noteworthy militant.But in January, 1972, Kaufman, then 33, was charged by federal authorities with planting nine bombs in safe-deposit boxes he had rented in banks in Chicago, New York City and San Francisco. Kaufman, an Army veteran, was a civil rights worker in the South and described as a gifted psychology student with a doctorate from Stanford University.Authorities said he was identified through fingerprints found on the explosive devices, three of which were recovered in three Chicago banks.Indictments returned by grand juries in the three cities alleged that Kaufman made and installed the bombs, then wrote anonymous letters to the press saying where eight of them could be found and warning that others would be planted unless freedom was given to unnamed ''political prisoners.''One of the bombs in San Francisco exploded prematurely in September, 1971.Then Kaufman vanished. There were no more bombs, no more letters. The FBI said he had escaped arrest and disappeared.But on Tuesday, police and FBI agents encircled Kaufman on a street corner in San Franciso`s Marina Bay neighborhood and placed him under arrest. A California police officer was credited with making an identification of Kaufman after seeing his wanted photo in the April issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.The officer, whose identity was withheld, got in touch with the FBI, explaining, ''I think I met that guy,'' said Richard W. Held, special agent in charge of the San Franciso FBI.''The officer who made the identification is one of those few souls who see a picture and remember the face,'' Held said. ''He is good at that.''While a fugitive, Kaufman had married, assumed the name of Gifford from a list of dead people and had lived in California the last 10 years and in the Bay Area of San Francisco for at least the last year, authorities said.Police Chief Frank Jordan said Kaufman had no known criminal record in the state.Kaufman appeared Wednesday before a federal magistrate in San Francisco and was ordered held without bail pending a hearing there next Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Atty. Mark Zanides said Kaufman asked to be represented by Leonard Weinglass, a defense lawyer in the ''Chicago Seven'' riots case.
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