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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.
[7] After the Greenwich Village explosion, in a review of the documentary film The Weather Underground (2002), a Guardian journalist restated the film's contention that no one was killed by WUO bombs. [94] We were very careful from the moment of the townhouse on to be sure we weren't going to hurt anybody, and we never did hurt anybody.
Terry Robbins (October 4, 1947 – March 6, 1970) was an American far left activist, a key member of the Ohio Students for a Democratic Society (The S.D.S.), and one of the three Weathermen who died in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion.
Protesters and police clashed in New York City on November 4, with reports of physical confrontations, fires lit, and more than twenty arrests made.Footage of the clashes taken by DataInput shows ...
The victim was injured on 7th Avenue just after 6 a.m. and was taken to the hospital with a non-life threatening injury.
In the days before the explosion, workers had been installing a new four-inch (10 cm) gas line to service the apartments at 121 Second Avenue. Con Edison workers inspected the installation just an hour before the explosion, but did not pass it, for reasons not related to safety. The new line was locked off and not operational.
A New York teenager was arrested and charged with 30 criminal offences after allegedly driving a stolen SUV into a house, prompting an enormous fiery explosion.. The 17-year-old suspect was taken ...
On March 2, 1970, in Keene, New Hampshire, a Weatherman purchased two 50-pound cases of dynamite from the New England Explosives Corporation. Sometime that week, the dynamite was moved from Keene to Greenwich Village, where it was taken to the house at 18 West Eleventh Street. [41] Oughton left Detroit and joined the group at the house.