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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.
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]
Car did not contain explosives, preliminary report says. 20:57, Mike Bedigan. The New York Times reported that a preliminary investigation found that the car did not contain explosives.. Citing ...
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.
Watch live as emergency services respond to the scene of an explosion in Paris on Wednesday, 21 June. Local French media reported that the blast, on rue Saint-Jacques in the fifth arrondissement ...
Three people including a firefighter were taken to hospital and a fourth has died after the blaze in Bedford.