On January 1975 after four and a half years underground, radical Weatherman Jane Alpert surrendered herself to police. Alpert received a twenty-seven-month sentence.

On 11 August 1970 the Reverend Daniel J. Berrigan, one of a group of peace activists known as the Catonsville Nine convicted of burning draft records in Catonsville, Maryland, in 1968, was seized by the FBI. Berrigan had been a fugitive for four months.

On 12 January 1971 antiwar activist, the Reverend Philip F. Berrigan, already imprisoned for burning draft cards, was indicted along with six others for conspiring to kidnap National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and bomb the heating systems of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. The subsequent "Harrisburg Seven" trial ended in a hung jury. On 5 September 1972 the Justice Department dropped all charges.

On 4 October 1976, in the midst of President Gerald Ford's election campaign, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigned following his...