June, 1969. Enter the Weathermen…. It swooped from giddy Third Worldism to a call for “antipig self-defense” movements and “cadre organization” on the way to a “Marxist-Leninist party” and “armed struggle.” … Compared to the general run of SDS members …, they came from wealth; they were used to getting what they demanded, stamping their feet if they had to, wriggling away without punishment (Gitlin 1987, pp. 384–385).

October, 1969. [T] he Weathermen blew up the statue commemorating the police victims of the Haymarket bombings a century before. On October 8 … the Weathermen were running through the Gold Coast [in Chicago], smashing expensive cars and shop windows. It was the beginning of three days of steady rampages (Hayden 1988, pp. 360–361).

Early 1970s. [T] he Weather Underground at the height of its activities … claimed responsibility for a number of bombings—including an explosion at the U.S. Capitol (McGrath 1981, p. 32).

October, 1981. [A] group of armed robbers tried to pull off “the big dance”—the code name they gave to a planned armed robbery of over a million dollars from a Brink's truck in Nyack, New York … two police officers and a Brink's guard were killed, and several men and women were captured. The best known was Kathy Boudin … who … was the most prominent political fugitive still at large (Frankfurt 1983).