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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.
The Weather Underground was a far-left Marxist militant organization first active in 1969, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. [2] [page needed] Originally known as the Weathermen, or simply Weatherman, the group was organized as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) national leadership. [3]
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 ...
Dohrn was pointed out by fellow Weather Underground Leader William Ayers as the Bomber during a WU Central Committee Leader meeting in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1970. FBI Informant Larry Grathwohl stated this account with Ayers, when he recalled that Ayers scolded leaders of the Cuban DGI and Soviet KGB backed organization for not doing more and making ...
Shooting, grenade attacks: 1 23: Munich, West Germany: A bus carrying passengers to an El Al plane at the Munich-Riem Airport was attacked by militants. [1] DFLP: Israeli–Palestinian conflict: February 21 Bombing: 47: 0 Switzerland: A bomb exploded in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, killing 38 passengers and ...
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March 6, 1970: Bombing 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 ...