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The Weather Underground was referred to as a terrorist group by articles in The New York Times, United Press International, and Time Magazine. [ 145 ] [ 146 ] [ 147 ] 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 explosionoccurred on March 6, 1970, in New York City, United States. Members of the Weather Underground(Weathermen), an American leftistmilitant group, were making bombs in the basement of 18 West 11th Streetin the Greenwich Villageneighborhood, when one of them exploded. The resulting series of three blasts ...
Weather Underground: Planned to blow up sites in the New York area as part of opposition to Vietnam War: 3 2 On March 6, 1970, a bomb being assembled by American radical left group Weather Underground accidentally exploded at West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, killing three members and injuring two other members. [13] January 24 ...
The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, by several Black Liberation Army members and four former members of the Weather Underground, who were at the time associated with the May 19th Communist Organization. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The plan called for the BLA members – including Kuwasi Balagoon ...
List of Weatherman actions. 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 ...
Panel: How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia U. Strike Against Militarism & Racism 50 Years Ago. Mark William Rudd (born June 2, 1947) is an American political organizer, mathematics instructor, anti-war activist and counterculture icon who was involved with the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Rudd became a member of the Columbia ...
Judith Alice Clark was born in November 9, 1943, in New York City. [ 1 ]: 24–25 Her parents were the researcher Ruth Clark and journalist Joe. They were members of the Communist Party USA and moved to the Soviet Union in 1950 with Clark and her brother Andy. Joe Clark worked as foreign editor of the Daily Worker newspaper until the family ...
William Charles Ayers (/ ɛərz /; born December 26, 1944) [1] is an American retired professor and former militant organizer. In 1969, Ayers co-founded the far-left militant organization the Weather Underground, a revolutionary group that sought to overthrow what they viewed as American imperialism. [2] During the 1960s and 1970s, the Weather ...