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The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, by several Black Liberation Army members and four former members of the Weather Underground, who were at the time associated with the May 19th Communist Organization.
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]
The Weather Underground was referred to as a terrorist group by articles in The New York Times, United Press International, and Time Magazine. [150] [151] [152] 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.
The May 19 Communist Organization, also known as the May 19th Coalition and the May 19 Communist Movement, was a self-described revolutionary organization formed by splintered-off members of the Weather Underground. Originally known as the New York Chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), the group was active from 1978 to 1985.
In 1969, the SDS was heading in a more radical direction and Jaffe became one of the founding members of the Weatherman Organization, yet never became a leader. [11] Jaffe joined the Weather Underground because the group believed in the self-determination of African American people; that they should have a revolution of their own without the total involvement of white middle class people.
A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience. (Free Press: New York, New York, 2004). Kraft, Scott. "The Brink's Job: Blowing The "Lid Off The Weather Underground," The Associated Press, October 24, 1981, retrieved on November 17, 2008. "Long Live Ho Chi Minh."
Larry David Grathwohl (October 13, 1947 – July 18, 2013) [1] was a United States Army veteran and a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant in the 1970s. He infiltrated the Weather Underground [2] and co-wrote a book about his experiences: Bringing Down America: An FBI informer with the Weathermen (1976).
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.