Daniel Swain Institute of the Environment and All Rights Reserved. According to a 1974 FBI study of the group, Dohrn's article signaled a developing commitment to Marxism-Leninism that had not been clear in the group's previous statements, despite their trips to Cuba and contact with Vietnamese communists there. She is married to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground. The police officers who caught them testified that Boudin, feigning innocence, pleaded with them to put down their guns and convinced them to drop their guard; Boudin said she remained silent, that the officers relaxed spontaneously. The MSP troopers conducted a two-hour surveillance of a man who arrived to inspect the exact spot where Grathwohl said the bomb was to be placed. Daily News Updates Adapted with permission from Bad Moon Rising: How The Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution, by Arthur M. Eckstein, Leaders of the radical American student group the Weathermen, (left to right) Jim Mellen, Peter Clapp, John Jacobs, Bill Ayers, and Terry Robbins, march in 1969 at the van of a group of demonstrators during the 'Days of Rage' actions organized by the Weathermen to protest the trial of the Chicago Seven and 'to bring the war home. But Weather only set off a total of 25 such bombs during its entire seven years of existence, all of them relatively small. Underground Professor The blast leveled the townhouse and killed three of the Weathermen Terry Robbins, Diane Oughton, and Ted Gold the only deaths connected to the Weather Underground bombings. Type your paragraph here. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Ayerhead distorts Weather Underground Record One of the accusers was Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant placed within Weather. "But we radicalized it, we gave it form. Boudin served 22 years in prison for her role in the heist. Brink's robbery When law school officials were asked whether or not the dean or the board of trustees approved the hiring, the school responded as follows: "While many would take issue with views Ms. Dohrn espoused during the 1960s, her career at the law school is an example of a person's ability to make a difference in the legal system. Thank you for reporting this station. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [1][2] The plan called for the BLA members including Kuwasi Balagoon, Mtayari Sundiata, Samuel Brown and Mutulu Shakur to carry out the robbery, with the M19CO members David Gilbert, Judith Alice Clark, Kathy Boudin, and Marilyn Buck to serve as getaway drivers in switchcars. Catch me on Saturdays onWNJC 1360 Philadelphia New Jersey Delaware at 5:00 PMCentral. As late as 2003, several former Weathermen leaders were the subject of a federal probe into the February 1970 bombing-murder of a San Francisco, California, police officer that occurred two days after a known-Weatherman bombing that injured police in nearby Berkeley. Kathy Boudin, Weather Underground Outlaw-Turned To be sure, it was almost unique among radicals in that period in using dynamite bombs to protest government war policies, racial unfairness and corporate greed. This bombing did not occur because of an accidental explosion March 6, 1970 that killed three Weathermen at a townhouse that was being used as a bomb-making factory. Dohrn was the disembodied voice that declared war on America during a California radio broadcast in 1970, as well as the primary issuer of communiqus that gave warnings about the group's radical movement. In August 1993, the Second Circuit denied Brown's new petition for a writ of habeas corpus. She wouldn't say she's sorry. From 1991 to 2013, Dohrn was a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. With the death of the police officers and the guard, and the incarceration of the last of the radicals, the movement and the ideology of the Weathermen died. One of those factions was the Weatherman (or the Weathermen), which took its name from a lyric in a Bob Dylan song: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." As they loaded the money into the truck, the robbers stormed out of their van and attacked. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital The Weather Underground - Top Documentary Films Like the enormous prestige of the FBIwhich proved itself hapless in the pursuit of Weathermanthe myth surrounding this small group is bigger than the reality. [17], In 2004, the Nyack post office was officially renamed after the two police officers and the Brink's guard who were killed in the shootout. "[13][21] However, all of these convictions were reversed on November 21, 1972, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on the basis the judge was biased in his refusal to permit defense attorneys to screen prospective jurors for cultural and racial bias. She replied, "I consider myself a revolutionary communist. 54, A 2009 retrospective report on the San Francisco bombing published in San Francisco Weekly revealed that as recently as 2003 Dohrn, Machtinger, and Ayers were all targets of a secret federal grand jury investigation regarding the murder. Another ghost from the deadly townhouse explosion resurfaced in 1981, perhaps in an even more shocking way than when she disappeared. The Crazy True Story Of The Weather Underground 56, In 2001, Ayers memoir of his SDS and Weathermen experiences was published. And the wind was blowing extremely hard to the left when the Weathermen officially splintered off from the SDS in 1969. Soon, police officers Edward O'Grady, Waverly Brown, Brian Lennon, and Artie Keenan spotted and pulled over the U-Haul truck, with Boudin in the front seat, along with the yellow Honda at an entrance ramp to the New York State Thruway off New York State Route 59. The WUO boasted a membership in the several hundred, hiding out scattered across the country in small communities of three to five people (think "cells") and all reporting to the Weather Bureau. Gilbert, David (2012). For three decades or four decades, theyve been in cahoots in an agenda around austerity, hollowing out the economy, privatization, crushing trade unions, permanent war. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967.