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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 referred to as a terrorist group by articles in The New York Times, United Press International, and Time Magazine. [ 151 ] [ 152 ] [ 153 ] 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.
September 19 – A WUO member is arrested by the FBI in New York. Released on bond, this member again submerges into the underground. September 28 - ITT headquarters buildings in New York City and Rome, Italy are bombed. WUO states this is in response to ITT's alleged role in the Chilean coup earlier that month. [30] [31]
Weather. 24/7 Help. ... New York City’s air quality index, or AQI, reached more than 400, a measurement of various air pollutants on a scale that goes up to 500. For comparison: last weekend’s ...
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 members. [13] January 24 ...
Jane Alpert turned herself in on November 17, 1974, at the Office of the United States Attorney in New York City [24] after being underground for four and a half years. According to The New York Times and TIME magazine, Alpert was sentenced to 27 months in prison for bombing conspiracy and jumping bail.
It was only with the issuance of the first official Weather Underground Organization (WUO) communiqué, weeks after the explosion, that Terry Robbins was identified as the last victim. [ 1 ] Shortly after the explosion, Weathermen leaders placed John Jacobs on indefinite leave from the WUO because he was the main advocate of Robbins' aggressive ...
Rudd went "underground" in 1970, hiding from law enforcement following the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three of his Weather Underground peers. He surrendered to authorities in 1977 and served a short jail sentence. He taught mathematics at Central New Mexico Community College, and retired in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rudd ...