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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.
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.
[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.
Browne, a senior writer at Rolling Stone and biographer of musical legends like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, reflects: "When Taylor arrived there, the Village music scene wasn’t quite what it ...
Five months after the Weatherman faction's October 1969 "Days of Rage" protests in Chicago, [14] Gold died on March 6, 1970, in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion at 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.
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