Jerold Block ’74, ’77L remembers the day in the late 1980s that his alter-ego, Jack Clark, was born. The Los Angeles activist had just come home after an afternoon passing out pamphlets criticizing U.S. foreign policy in Latin America when he discovered that someone painted a red hammer-and-sickle on his front door. Block, whose address was unlisted, had reason to be alarmed. Only a few weeks before and a few miles away, one of his fellow activists, a Salvadoran woman, had been kidnapped and tortured by unknown assailants for similar political activities.

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