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The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in New York City, United States.Members of the Weather Underground (Weathermen), an American leftist militant group, were making bombs in the basement of 18 West 11th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, when one of them exploded.
Three members of the group were killed in an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, but no fatalities have been confirmed as a result of any of its other bombings. The WUO communiqué issued in connection with the bombing of the United States Capitol on March 1, 1971, indicated that it was "in protest of the U.S. invasion of Laos".
March 6 – WUO members Theodore Gold, Diana Oughton, and Terry Robbins are killed in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, [2] [10] when a nailbomb they were constructing detonates. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
On the morning of March 6, 1970, there was an explosion in the sub-basement of a townhouse owned by Wilkerson's father, located at 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village. [2] The blast killed three people, but Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin were helped from the rubble, and they immediately went underground. [2]
In 1970 she and Cathy Wilkerson were the only survivors of the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, when a bomb that their comrades were constructing in the basement, intending to use it to attack U.S. Army personnel that evening, exploded prematurely, killing three of the militants and demolishing the building they were using as a hideout ...
A fan poses outside the New York City townhouse used to film "Sex and the City." ... the other homes and structures in the West Village and Greenwich Village. ... a bomb threat and bigger crowds ...
If today's reported suspicions and reposts are accurate, the statuesque actress has listed her Greenwich Village five-story, elevator-free townhouse with Sotheby's Uma Thurman Lists Greenwich ...
Oughton died in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in Greenwich Village when a nail bomb she was constructing with Terry Robbins detonated. The bomb was to be used that evening at a dance for noncommissioned officers and their dates at the Fort Dix, New Jersey Army base, to "bring the [Vietnam] war home". [4]