Stand Up with Me

Abstract

This chapter takes another couple as its subject, Michael Moffitt and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who will both be in Orlando Letelier’s car when it is bombed. Through their biography, the chapter explains the coming-of-age of a new generation of young activists focused on human rights. In the mid-1970s, the Moffitts fall in love, marry, and begin to work with Letelier under the aegis of a Washington think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies.