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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.
October 14 - The Harvard Center for International Affairs is bombed by The Proud Eagle Tribe of Weather (later renamed the Women's Brigade of the Weather Underground). [20] WUO claims this is to protest the war in Vietnam. [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30] The bombing was in reaction to Angela Davis' arrest and was the first action undertaken by an all ...
October 14, 1970 - The Women's Brigade bomb the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University [note 1] [4] and is conducted in solidarity with Angela Davis, a political activist who had recently been arrested. The bombing is considered to be the first action taken by the Brigade.
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.
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 ...
In his podcast, Mother Country Radicals, Zayd Dohrn, the son of 1970s Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn, revisits her story.View Entire Post › Bernardine Dohrn Was Called The Most ...
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
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan reportedly plan to build a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker on their Hawaii property.