Capitol building, the Pentagon, and other pillars of American government and law enforcement became targets of the radical group’s bombings. Date unspecified.ĭuring the Weathermen’s eight years of operation, the U.S. Two other accomplices, Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson, survived and escaped.Īll were members of the Weather Underground - commonly known as the Weathermen - a radical left-wing group that made their explosive mark on American history in the years surrounding the Greenwich Village blast.īettmann/Getty Images Diana Oughton (center, holding papers) waits her turn to speak at a rally on the steps of the Rackham Building on the University of Michigan campus. Instead, it destroyed them and another accomplice named Ted Gold. The bomb was destined to destroy either Columbia University’s library or an army dance hall at Fort Dix. Three people died - but completely innocent people they were not.ĭiana Oughton and Terry Robbins had accidentally detonated the nail bomb they were constructing.

In March of 1970, a bomb went off in the basement of a Greenwich Village, New York townhouse. “Our intention is to disrupt the empire… to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks.” - From the Weather Underground’s 1974 manifesto, “Prairie Fire”. David Fenton/Getty Images Young men raise their fists during the “Days of Rage” anti-Vietnam War demonstrations organized by the Weathermen in Chicago.

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