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Weatherman, also known as Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American radical left wing militant organization that carried out a series of domestic terrorism activities from 1969 through the 1970s which included bombings, jailbreaks, and riots. Following is a list of the organization's various activities and ...
The Weather Underground was referred to as a terrorist group by articles in The New York Times, United Press International, and Time Magazine. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] [ 150 ] The group fell under the jurisdiction of the FBI-New York City Police Anti-Terrorist Task Force, a forerunner of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
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.
New York City, the largest and most populous city in the United States, [1] [2] [3] has been the target of numerous acts of terrorism throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The city, in particular, was one of the targets of the September 11 attacks , the single deadliest terrorist attack in history, which saw the destruction of the World Trade ...
Kathy Boudin, a former member of the radical Weather Underground who spent years behind bars after taking part in a deadly 1981 holdup of a Brink’s armored truck, has died at age 78.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. American professor and activist For the American baseball pitcher, see Bill Ayers (baseball). For the Catholic priest, radio host, and hunger activist, see Bill Ayres. Bill Ayers Ayers in 2012 Born William Charles Ayers (1944-12-26) December 26, 1944 (age 79) Glen Ellyn, Illinois, U.S ...
OpEd: Perhaps educational leaders will learn something from the conflict now roiling elite universities, and go back to being teachers instead of preachers.
The media and politicians in the West tended to focus on such “terrorist spectacles” in order to “deflect attention from what else was happening,” he said, such as intervention in Latin ...