Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
May 18 - The bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York. WUO states this is in response to the killing of 10-year-old black youth Clifford Glover by police. [29] [note 2] September 19 – A WUO member is arrested by the FBI in New York. Released on bond, this member again submerges into the underground.
The Weather Underground was referred to as a terrorist group by articles in The New York Times, United Press International, and Time Magazine. [ 149 ] [ 150 ] [ 151 ] 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.
Today, Wilkerson lives in Brooklyn, New York with her partner, criminal defense attorney Susan Tipograph, and is the mother of an adult daughter, Bess, who was born in California while she was underground. [29] [30] Wilkerson spent the last 20 years teaching mathematics in high schools and adult education programs. [31]
A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S ...
A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience. Free Press: New York, New York, 2004. Free Press: New York, New York, 2004. The author of this book is the now grownup four-year-old that was present at the 1981 arrest of his parents, Weather Underground Organization members Jeff Jones and ...
An upstate New York police department is so tired of the recent brutal weather that it has arrested the winter. Police officers who are sick of cold weather 'arrest' the winter Skip to main content
An undocumented immigrant was charged with setting a woman on fire, killing her, as she slept in the New York City subway -- a horrific alleged crime that officials called "beyond comprehension."