In Popular Culture
Interview footage of John Jacobs was included in the 2002 film The Weather Underground.
In the fiction novel American Pastoral by Philip Roth, the daughter of the central character appears to be a member of the Weather Underground. The novel incorporates Jacobs' "We're against everything that's 'good and decent'..." statement at the 1969 "War Council" in Flint.
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