Golf1echo
03-06-2016, 08:44
The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was caused by the premature detonation of a bomb that was being assembled by members of the Weather Underground, an American radical left group. The bomb was under construction in the basement of 18 West 11th Street, when it accidentally exploded; the blast reduced the four-story townhouse to a burning, rubble-strewn ruin. The two persons preparing the bomb were killed instantly
A time in this country when domestic terrorism was on the rise, what's interesting here and in many other similar incidents....a lot of Charlies know.
A side note, a few of the Weather Underground terrorists social elites went on to Columbia University. That ilk still flabbergasts me and yet here we are today.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/bomb-detonates-greenwich-village-1970-article-1.2136142
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/10/how-1960s-radicals-ended-up-teaching-your-kids.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-the-weather-underground-blast/
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A time in this country when domestic terrorism was on the rise, what's interesting here and in many other similar incidents....a lot of Charlies know.
A side note, a few of the Weather Underground terrorists social elites went on to Columbia University. That ilk still flabbergasts me and yet here we are today.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/bomb-detonates-greenwich-village-1970-article-1.2136142
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/10/how-1960s-radicals-ended-up-teaching-your-kids.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-the-weather-underground-blast/
Just a little history...
Dig deeper