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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.
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 ...
In 1970, the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government under the name "Weather Underground Organization." [7] In the 1970s, the WUO conducted a bombing campaign targeting government buildings and several banks.
Melville committed a series of eight bombings on various buildings in New York City in 1969. [11] Most of these bombs detonated during the night and did not injure anyone, [11] but one bombing occurred on the 8th floor of the Marine Midland Building in the Financial District on August 20, 1969, injuring 20 people. [12] March 6, 1970: Bombing
Pages in category "1970 building bombings" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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 ...
None of the top 10 1970s baby girl names overlapped with the top 10 list of names 50 years prior. In fact, there are only two baby girl names that made the top 25 baby girl names in both the 1920s ...
In 1969, Boudin was a founding member of the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society, which in 1970 became the Weather Underground Organization (WUO). In 1970 she and Cathy Wilkerson were the only survivors of the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, when a bomb that their comrades were constructing in the basement, intending ...