Student Rioters: Who Were The Weather Underground? | War/Peace | Timeline 

*You don't need a Weather Man to know which way the wind blows."

Criminals

Weather Underground: We will teach them our peaceful ways, by force!

“The weather underground never existed! It was just an idea!!1!!1”

Rioters? I do recall they were fond of bombing buildings as well.

"We weren't trying to hurt anyone" yep, just building bombs and threatening to use them for fun.

I make bombs and want to use them on other humans but.... I'm a good person

As Benjamin Franklin said, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

Well that was garbage.

Film seems to avoid examining what exactly may have happened in early March 1970 in the West Village when former Columbia SDS vice-chair Ted Gold was killed:.As the now-deceased longtime U.S. antiwar Movement organizer and 1969-1970 Chicago 8 "Conspiracy" Trial defendant Dave Dellinger recalled in his 1975-published book, More Power Than We Know, "shortly after the event, a private message from one of my underground Weathermen friends told me that Ted Gold…was killed only because he had been traumatized by a sudden realization of the horror they were preparing for their enemies and had come back to the house to try to persuade his associates to abandon the project." In addition, in his 1993-published autobiography, From Yale to Jail, Dellinger also wrote that "the message explained that they were making an anti-personnel bomb in the townhouse" and "that was what had upset Gold." As J. Kirk Sale indicated in his Apr. 13, 1970 Nation magazine article, "the details of what happened in this tragic explosion" that killed Ted, Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins "are still murky". According to Newsweek's March 23, 1970 "The House on 11th Street" article, after the first of three explosions that demolished the townhouse, "neighbors helped two young men over a backyard fence and saw a third escape by the same route." And in his 1973 book SDS, Sale also noted that "out through the back garden …at least three people…made their way over the walls into adjoining gardens" and "they immediately disappeared and were never identified." In addition, according to footnote 3 on page 260 of Professor Eckstein's 2016 Bad Moon Rising book, "Nina Herrick, who in March 1970 lived at 19 West 10th Street, and whose small backyard thus backs on the small backyard of the Wilkerson townhouse" told Eckstein in a Feb. 8, 2016 interview that "she and her husband heard the explosion and saw three people…running from the back of the townhouse and west toward Sixth Avenue." Yet Herrick also told Eckstein that "neither she nor any of her neighbors on West 10th Street were ever interviewed by the New York Police Department or the FBI."

More mainstream rubbish from the BBC and Co

I was looking for a documentary to tell me the story of the "Weather Underground Movement" during the 1960's, but this only talks about 2016.

“Things are terrible,” as they are conducting an interview in a coffee shop/ bookstore in Spain. Why is it that the children with trust funds feel the need to fight and magnify perceived issues?

Now I've never been a big fan of Bill Ayers - but I gotta say, for an ex-terrorist's memoir to come out on September 11, 2001 is about the most awkward situation you can possibly imagine.

After 42:25 "An officer was sent to protect me. His name, ironically, was Officer Muhammad." LOL

'IN PUSUIT OF TRUTH' ON BITCHUTE, HES DONE ALL THE RESEARCH & WORK ON NEFARIOUS WEATHERMEN

Odd seeing an old guy travelling to spain to tell them how terrible the US is. We'd be a lot happier if he stayed there.

The arrogance of these people and this mind set has put us in the worst possible position to have freedom for their children.

These people have no idea what Democracy even is

Lots of them are now professors. Hummm. Propaganda they get warm and fuzzy for the 60's. I heard a kid wishing a war like Vietnam so he could protest. Wonderful.

How is Ayers not rotting in jail? Instead he's mentoring future Presidents.

Then they all go home to their cable tv, smart phones, microwave ovens, driving the cars and utilizing all of the trappings of capitalist society. Yeah, they're real visionaries.

FO Dan Snow you massive bell, we don't tune in to history vids to listen to how much you love yourself

Reading the comments breaks my heart. So many with little understanding of the times. Little empathy for others. Little awareness of cultural influence on human lives. Being wrong in methods does not negate all the ideas for change that were so abundant in the youth of those decades.

Ayers should have been in prison a long time ago with many of the other Democrats who support him

If they fought for Vietnamese self-determination, then why Vietnamese still have no vote in their country?

2 party system🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Best scam ever pulled off!! PROUD to be an Nonparty Affiliate Voter!

Not sure the system needs to be fought anymore. It’s dying on its own.

Yeah let’s start a war to end a war…..😂

By the way the weatherman group detonated a bomb in the us capitol…

Why are these people not in prison????

Any clear thinking person who opposes war and violence, would never murder and destroy to get their way. It's a complete loss of principle. If you're using violence (and it isn't self-defence), you're publicly approving of violence and have lost the argument entirely.

This is Communism

Obama's best friends and mentors were Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn founders of The Weather Underground. They were so awful, the Black Panthers wouldn't have anything to do with them. Ayers helped the Obama's purchase their first home and they were neighbors. This should tell you everything about Obama's character.

Nothing like hearing Bill Ayers complain about Capitalism but comes from a moderately wealthy family THANKS to Capitalism. Makes my damn head hurt.

Thanks for the upload.

The parallel between the weathermen/black Panthers and ANTIFA/BLM is uncanny...history repeats itself.

I think it would have been informational to also talk about the others - the remainder of those in SDS, the Worker-Student Alliance. SDS split into two groups: the Weathermen and the Worker-Student Alliance.

Who's this guy that claims American teachers don't want to teach about the bad things America has done?

Wonder if they ever worked along with the Angry Brigade (UK); Red Army Brigade (West Germany); and the FLQ (Quebec).

One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist, I actually don’t agree with that notion, there’s an origin of where all the trouble comes from.

Fricking Commy Propaganda. Just more lie's.

another well done documentary ... detailing a subject matter of past and present ✌️ 😔

It was so sad to see Chomsky with such an awful case of TDS. Id rather remember him when he had his senses.

Mr. Chomsky is a fruit cake......

At least you state at the beginning that this is a propaganda film.

It took a Republican to free the slaves. Why don't they teach that in schools

Read the book, Hillbilly Nationals and the Black Panther Party.

Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, Lenin, Stalin would be so proud of these weathermen. These people hate civilization. Amazing they got professorships.

I used to like Noam, but I think there are elements in both parties dedicated to "destroying the species."

They should all be in prison.

Chomsky can strip and reassemble a .45 blindfolded and underwater. Still.

Ya these people were crazy and played the victim.

Switched off when i heard son of fairly wealthy parents

I wonder if Bernadine Dorhn still digs Charles Manson?

I wonder if there's anyone of them left? I actually met a Jones Town Survivor 😮

Ayers never became the ultimate martyr activist: a political prisoner of the nation he hated! He is still free and living in the USA.

My father was the last of 4 brothers in Vietnam. From a poor family.When he came back home in the early 1970’s he became an activist. True democracy is just and fair.

“Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.” -- Augusto Pinochet

SDS was a fine movement, the weather underground was absolutely preposterous. First the protests did have a MAJOR MAJOR impact. Their are people in the government who thought the more violent the weather underground is the better, it can then be used as a brush to paint all protesters and leftists, it worked

From my experience, this video isn't completely truthful, especially the last 15 or 20 minutes. There are a lot of people that are brainwashed and some, on either sides of an issue, will gas light you. 🙄🤨

aires and doren killed people so many bombs

Anyone know the name of the song at 13:45

These people speak like true marxist. Wish they understand the patterns of marxism

TBH, Id rather drive an Amazon truck than care for the elderly.

I literally finished reading up on this very topic less than a hour ago.

President Obama mentioned on numerus occasions that he and Bill Ayers were close friends. Chicagoans until the end along with Saul Alinsky.

I had a girlfriend who graduated Berkley in '69. SDS and othe radical connections. She ended up voting for Reagan in '80 a and '84. I guess I was a bad influence. Jimmy Carter helped.

This documentary is way too soft on some of the WU people interviewed in it, eg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn#Statements_about_Tate-LaBianca_murders

Violence is a nessasary action to bring an end to state violence,the state is quite content to use it,abroad and domestic..against the domesticate citizen..

53:30 water is not free!

There are zero pictures of the carbon footprint all of these people have. You can spew ideals that sound nice on paper, but where does your paper come from?

It was a concerted effort by the youth of this country to turn on the country. They worked closely with the brotherhood of eternal love to help get the LSD trade out of the hands of the hells angels and back into the hands of the people who had good intentions for the youth. They had good ideas. They were just radical.aybe that's what was needed at the time.

They were terrorists not rioters

Lost me at the BLM tee

David Horowitz should be interviewed for this film.

“One person one vote!” Well that’s ironic.

Monahan Fields

It gives me great pleasure seeing Bill and Bernadine grow old and irrelevant. They won't be stealing oxygen from the rest of us much longer.

The terrorists?

“That guy has the same name as you.” “Wow, that’s amazing. Nice to meet you.” *stole his identity 2 weeks prior.” “Communism.”

TO THOSE HERE WHO VILIFY THE WU: dems and gop unite to sustain domestic AND foreign authoritarianism. While I think any violence can have counterproductive consequences, it's also historically true that violence has played a role in most systemic changes, whether we 'like/ accept' the tactic or not

There was one little nugget of truth in this program. It was at the very beginning, right after Chomsy's opening at 1:00 the text on the screen reads, "this is a propaganda film..." Really, Timeline. If you're going to throw your hat into the political arena so clearly biased to the left I doubt my subscription or support for you content will continue.

Thank you for the episode.

Noam Chomsky is hilarious. For all his years in academics, he fails to realize that the left and the right are two wings of the same tyrannical bird.

They should all be in jail !

The Weathermen were patriots to the American people, not the American government.

The first guys a joke! Chomsky

Rath Grove

Sympathetic treatment of terrorists. I look forward to a similarly fond portrayal of Stalin

Anyone that tells you their gonna end racism don’t listen to that person. Racism will always be a part of life. It’s all about choice

Weird considering there is a website & commercial company called Weather Underground now.

Excellent documentary. I remember much of this. Good to know the details. When will ppl stop shopping and get real.

My uncle was in that war sweetness!

Dinosaurs with a brain the size of a walnut lived in peace on earth for 65 million years. Man with his brain the size of a watermelon 400,000 years are we gonna be here much longer ? But still we have part of the Dinosaurs brain.Is it time to go Dinosaur???

This is a US Middle Class Guilt Trip view. It's great that there are others elsewhere in the World that changed things peacefully but what else can you expect from the US. Look beyond,read Canadian Naomi Klein,there is another way.

Mayor Bill Di Blasio was a member of the Weathermen , but not with that name.

Kathleen Soliah aka Sarah Jane Olson, hid here in MN for a while. At least she did some time. I'm sure her neighbors in the very liberal area she lived were surprised at her hiding among them and shocked she was actually punished.

Crona Ferry

Didn't they want to buy multiple states? And make it a black country?