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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.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Weather Underground conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings in opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The bombings caused no fatalities, except for three members killed when one of the group's devices accidentally exploded. The FBI described the Weather Underground as a domestic terrorist ...
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 ...
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 ...