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Authors: Bryan Burrough

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Opsahl murdered by, 337, 547
police targeted by, 294, 298, 338–41
recruiting by, 275–77, 279, 294, 334
Scott and, 307
in siege and conflagration, 302–3, 304–6, 315, 357, 448, 497
sexual relationships in, 336, 341
Weather Underground and, 278, 286, 288–89, 303, 315
see also specific members
Tabor, Michael “Cetawayo,” 49, 188–89, 194, 450, 453
Taft, Richard, 452
Taft, Robert A., Jr., 452
Taft, William Howard, 452
Tappis, Steve, 65–66
Target Blue
(Daley), 244–45
Tate, Sharon, 86
Taylor, Elizabeth, 40
Teitelbaum, Cynthia, 330
Teitelbaum, Jim, 330–31
terrorism, 541
Thelma’s Lounge, 201
Thomas, Gloria, 270–72
Thomas, John, 202–7, 209, 239
Thomson, Bobby, 175
Tice, Sandy, 23–24
Tidmarsh, Joe, 240
Till, Emmett, 28
Time,
6, 155, 310, 376
n
Tipograph, Susan, 458, 471–72, 545
Torgersen, Roxanne, 505–6
Torgersen, Sandra, 505–6
Torres, Carlos, 332, 384, 385, 391, 392, 394, 396, 397, 402, 461–62, 464, 479, 481–84, 486–89, 491, 545
Torres, José, 332, 488
Torres, Marie Haydee, 385, 464, 479, 484, 487, 545
in Mobil bombing, 398–99, 402, 488
Toure, Kazi, 514–15, 521–24, 537
Touré, Sékou, 180–81
Tribal Thumb Collective, 275
Trombino, Joe, 502–4
Truman, Harry, 318, 325
TUG: The Urban Guerrilla,
349
Tuley High, 387–89
Tupamaros, 124, 141
Turcich, Cathy, 342
Turner, Nat, 29
Ultra Violet, 24
underground, 25, 89–91, 148, 259, 275, 447–48, 392, 515
Black Panthers in, 189, 200
Connor on, 540–41
dos and don’ts for people in, 90
draft dodgers and deserters in, 89–91
Dragon
and, 308
false identities and theft in, 91–92, 162–63
Jackson and, 268
legacies of, 538–40
and most violent year, 497–98
myths about, 26–28
prisons and, 260–62
rebirth of, 259–60
Soledad Brothers and, 265
Symbionese Liberation Army’s destruction and, 305–6
Weathermen in, 81–82, 84, 89–92, 218, 448, 515
Underground
(Rudd), 84
Union Carbide Building, 318
United Freedom Front (UFF; Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson Unit; SMJJ), x, 4, 407–9, 430–43, 513–36, 544
bank robberies by, 515, 517, 523–24, 526, 527
bombings by, 407–8, 430–38, 441–42, 513, 524–25, 530
on
CBS Evening News,
526
FBI and, 520–21, 526–36
mail drop of, 531–32
manhunt for, 528–29
safe houses of, 440–41
see also specific members
United Fruit, 15–16, 20
United Nations, 34, 389
United Press International (UPI), 209, 213, 436
Universal African Legions, 29
Universal Negro Improvement Association, 29, 31
University of California, 58
University of Maine, 415, 417
University of Washington, 150
University of Wisconsin, 148–49, 155
Valentín, Carmen, 388, 487, 489
Valentine, William, 463–64, 469
vanguardism, 65
Van Lydegraf, Clayton, 145, 147, 312, 313, 368, 369, 372–73, 457, 546
Velez, Raul, 382–84
Venceremos, 262, 278, 390
Vesey, Denmark, 29
Vickers, Robert, 191–92
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 415
Vietnam War, 59, 61, 67, 68, 74, 153, 156, 224, 260, 447, 539
end of, 236, 259, 309, 415
Levasseur in, 411, 413, 415
protests against, 11, 26–28, 58, 70, 132, 156, 157, 223, 309, 415
Vizi, Lou, 319–21, 323, 327–32, 374, 377, 382, 392, 394–96, 464, 483, 497
Wager, Susan, 109
Wahad, Dhoruba bin-,
see
Moore, Richard “Dhoruba”
Waite, Ronald, 107–8
Waiting ’til the Midnight Hour
(Joseph), 34
Walker, Andy, 529
Warhol, Andy, 24
Washington, Albert, 203
Washington, George, 321
Washington Monthly,
244–45
Washington Post,
232, 497
Watergate, 236, 286, 292, 335, 362, 379, 447, 497
Waters, John, 547
Watkins, Bud, 230
WBAI, 13, 15–16
WCBS, 394
Weatherman (Weather Underground Organization), ix–x, 1–2, 427, 52, 55–56, 63–66, 70–86, 177, 194, 259, 260, 275, 309–16, 361–79, 420, 421, 426, 430, 447, 448, 450, 457, 458, 538, 545–46
armed propaganda strategy of, 122
arrests of members of, 373
authorization of actions in, 93
bizarre behavior in, 56, 72
Black Panthers and, 76, 94, 159–60
cadre school of, 365
Central Committee of, 128, 186, 310–13, 315, 363–65, 369
in Chicago, 70–76, 78–81, 93, 94
collectives in, 92–93, 117–18
communiqués of, 118, 123–24, 130, 136, 149, 150, 159, 223–24, 278, 288–89, 366
criticism/self-criticism in, 76–77, 84, 278, 369
Cuba and, 73–74, 87, 88, 136
Days of Rage, 70, 73, 74, 78–81, 88, 99, 105, 114, 162, 311, 370, 371, 496
death of, 369–72, 380, 496
disappearance in 1972 and 1973, 309–10
dissension in, 311–12
emotional violence in, 76–77
FALN and, 327, 331–32, 389–91
false identities and, 91–92, 435
FBI and, 71, 73, 97–99, 110, 112–15, 119, 123, 132–35, 142, 152–53, 161–68, 220–21, 226, 228–30, 233–35, 311, 365, 367, 371, 373–79, 380, 496
FBI raid on San Francisco apartments of (the Encirclement), 167–68, 218–24, 228, 390
n,
504
feminism and, 311, 368, 369
funding for, 141–43, 161
Hampton Bays gathering of, 154, 157
Hampton’s murder and, 84–85, 94
Hard Times Conference of, 364–65, 367–68
indictments against, 114, 116, 136, 309, 311
“invasions” of schools and colleges by, 74
inversion plan of, 361–62, 371
in January to March 1970, 87–105
in June to October 1970, 132–51
killing people as intention of, 56, 87–88, 93–99, 104, 121, 123, 157
leadership’s move to San Francisco, 92–93
Leary and, 143–49, 236
loss of members of, 115, 117, 124, 125, 128, 218–19, 230
in March to June 1970, 106–31
Milwaukee collective of, 118–19
Movement support requested by, 157–58
myth of nonviolence of, 93, 123, 126, 127
name change of, 159
National War Council of, 85–86, 218, 225
“New Morning, Changing Weather” essay of, 158–60
New York cell of, 111, 128–31, 310–11, 334
in October 1970 to April 1971, 152–69
orgies in, 56, 72, 77–78, 86
Osawatomie,
362–63
policemen targeted by, 94–97, 99, 121, 123, 157, 178
poverty among members of, 140, 160–61, 311
Prairie Fire,
311–16, 327, 333, 361–66, 390, 426
Prairie Fire Distribution Committee, 363–64
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, 364–65, 367–69, 372–74, 457
prison conditions as concern of, 223–24
Progressive Labor and, 69
purges in, 88, 89, 92, 369–70, 372
reemergence of, 306, 309
restaurant robbed by, 141
Rockefeller kidnap plan of, 127
at SDS convention, 68–70, 74
SDS taken over and destroyed by, 70, 73, 74, 89, 121, 157, 230
Smash Monogamy program in, 77, 78
students’ views on, 155
summit meeting of, 120–23
surrenders of members of, 370–72
Symbionese Liberation Army and, 278, 286, 288–89, 303, 315
Tiburon house of, 160
Townhouse explosion and, 1, 106–13, 115–16, 120, 121, 124, 128, 132, 133, 140, 149, 154, 157–59, 163, 168–69, 178, 218–19, 370, 448, 497, 504, 545
Tucson Five, 153–54
in underground, 81–82, 84, 89–92, 218, 448, 515
Underground
film made about, 366–67
violent turn of, 82
war declared against U.S. government by, 123–24, 126–28, 132, 141
Weather Bureau, 74, 75, 81, 82
Weatherman paper, 67–68, 88, 122
“Weatherman Park” gathering and, 168–69
women’s brigade in, 150, 311
youth culture and, 116–17, 121, 144, 146, 149, 158

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